Lara Pucci is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on art and visual culture in twentieth-century Italy, especially during the Fascist era and the immediate post-war period. She has held the Balsdon Fellowship (2022) and the Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship in Sculpture (2018) at the BSR and was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2023) for a project on visual cultures of landscape in the Fascist imaginary.