Flavia De Nicola is an Early Modern art historian. She received her PhD with honors from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with a doctoral dissertation on the Borghese’s patronage and collecting at the papal Villa Mondragone (2024). At the same university, she has served as Cultore della Materia (Honorary Fellow) in Early Modern Art History, participating as a member of examination boards and thesis co-advisor since 2020. She taught “Art and Patronage in Renaissance and Baroque Rome” in the international program of the Boston College in Rome (2023).

In 2022, she assisted the organization of the exhibition “Patronage and Devotion : a Focus on Six Roman Baroque Paintings” at Villa Mondragone (Monte Porzio Catone), co-curated by Prof. Giovan Battista Fidanza and Prof. Guendalina Serafinelli, with the institutional support of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, IRVIT - Regional Institute for Tuscolan Villas, The Catholic University of America, Pontifical Irish College. She collaborated as a curatorial intern at the Vatican Museums (2019-2020), and trained at the Ecole du Louvre (2012).

She has participated in several international conferences, including the “Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, Inc. 2023 Conference” at The University of Western Australia (2023) and the “67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America” (2021). Additionally, she was involved in a research project at the ENEA National Agency, aimed at the study of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel (2012). She has published in scientific journals and co-curated a monographic volume on the woodcuts of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili incunabulum (2020).

Since 2014, she has been the co-founder and author of Milestone Rome art project.