Giuseppina Raggi is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and an Integrated Researcher at IHA – NOVA FCSH. She received her PhD in Art History in 2005 from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy). Her research focuses on ceiling painting and on artistic and cross-cultural exchange between Italy, Portugal, and Brazil in 17th and 18th centuries. Currently, her work explores artistic circulations in European, Atlantic, and Global contexts, with particular attention to the role of women in architecture and opera theatre in einghteenth-century Portugal and Europe, as well as to the patronage and agency of African people of birth or descent in early modern art and architecture in Portugal and in the Atlantic space.
She is currently Principal Investigator of the project «Making Portugal» (https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.12349.PEX). In 2021, she published the book O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra, and co-edited the volume Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell’opera in Portogallo, the outcome of a research project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2019-2020). Most recently, she contributed the chapter “The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People in Salvador (Brazil), and the Enslaved Painter António Telles at Olinda” to The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, edited by Stephen Campbell and Stephenie Porras (New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 624-639.