is Professor of History of Medieval and Modern Art at Braunschweig University of Art. She studied history of art, romance languages, German and philosophy in Kiel and Berlin, and was awarded doctoral and post-doctoral stipends for several-year long research conducted in London, Paris, Turin and Rome. In 1992, she earned a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. Between 1993 and 2000, she was involved as an academic assistant in the establishment of the interdisciplinary Institute for Research on Early Modernity at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Her research focuses on the interpretation of early modern art, the history of ideas, the construction of gender, the self-reflective understanding of painting, and the art of modern/postmodern times.