Biography
She was born in 1998 in Rijeka. After graduating from high school in Rijeka, she enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She obtained her master’s degree in Art History (research track, Renaissance and Baroque Art module) and English Language and Literature (translation track) in 2022. From 2021 to 2024, she was a collaborator on the project Provenance Research on Artwork in Zagreb Collections (HRZZ IP-2020-02-1356) led by Ljerka Dulibić, PhD, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation and implemented at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She received the Croatian Society of Art Historians’ Award for Excellent Master's Thesis in 2023.
She participated in training seminars and summer schools in Bologna and Florence (Fondazione Federico Zeri, New York University Florence, 2022) and in Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2023). She completed multiple research visits at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Since 2024, she has been an external associate (assistant) at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. As of 2025, she is employed as a research assistant at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. She is a collaborator on the institutional project Between Central Europe and the Mediterranean – The Artistic Heritage of Continental Croatia in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (ISEM, 2023–2027), led by Daniel Premerl, PhD and funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. In the same year, she enrolled in the doctoral program of Art History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Her areas of interest include Italian painting from the 16th to the 18th century and the history of patronage, collecting, and the art market.
Scholarly papers and book chapters
Prijedlozi za Francesca Rizza da Santacrocea i njegovu radionicu, u: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, 48, 2024., 7–20. (s Anom Šitina Žepina)
Donacija slika Ivana Ružića Strossmayerovoj galeriji, u: Peristil: zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti, 66, 2023., 87–102.
Professional papers
U spomen Vinku Zlamaliku, u: Kvartal kronika povijesti umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj, XXI, 2024., 52–58.
Barokna umjetnička baština u fokusu, u: Kvartal: kronika povijesti umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj, XX, 2023., 130–138.
O zanatu connoisseura, u: Kvartal: kronika povijesti umjetnosti u Hrvatskoj, XIX, 2022., 150–155.
Conference presentations
Valentin Metzinger in Rijeka and the Northern Adriatic, Baroque Art and Architecture in Slovenia: Migrations, Transfers, Contacts, and Networks, Ljubljana/Brežice, 13.–15. 10. 2025.
Pejzaž u bellinijanskom slikarstvu Cinquecenta: primjer Francesca Rizza da Santacrocea, Umjetnost i transformacija prirode. XIX. Dani Cvita Fiskovića, Orebić, 5.–8. 10. 2025.
Collecting Paintings in 18th-Century Rijeka, Lasting Possessions: Old Masters Collections Across Provenance Research and Beyond, Zagreb, 13.–14. 12. 2024.
Donacija Ivana Ružića Strossmayerovoj galeriji HAZU-a – okolnosti nabave i darovanja umjetnina, 5. Kongres hrvatskih povjesničara umjetnosti „Obnove nakon potresa“, Zagreb, 10. –12. 11. 2022.