Annalisa Lo Monaco has studied and carried out research in Pisa, Basel, Matera, Athens, Berlin and Rome.
Her main scientific topics are religious life in the Greek and Roman world, contacts between Greece and Rome in the late Republican period, Roman sculpture of the imperial age, aspects and themes of imperial ideology. Her main research interests include the sanctuary of Olympia, religious life and economy of sanctuaries in Greece and the cult of Artemis, to which she has devoted numerous articles in specialist journals, several monographs and presentations at international conferences.
She has held lectures in many international conferences, held in Athens (2001, 2005, 2014), Clermont-Ferrand (2003), Rome (2008, 2017), Oxford (2010), Seville (2015), Udine (2018), Berlin, Bonn and Tübingen (2018). She has participated and co-directed numerous excavation fields in Rome and southern Italy.
She has worked for many years with important institutions, including the Capitoline Museums (Rome).
She has edited important exhibitions in Rome, such as Trionfi romani (Rome, Colosseo 2008); Roma. La pittura di un Impero (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, 2009), Il sorriso di Dioniso (Rome, Palazzo Altemps, 2010), I giorni di Roma. L’età della Conquista (Rome, Capitoline Museums 2010); I giorni di Roma. Ritratti (Rome, Capitoline Museums 2011), I giorni di Roma. L’età dell’Equilibrio (Rome, Capitoline Museums 2012); Augusto (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale / Paris, Grand Palais, 2013-2014), I giorni di Roma. L’età dell’Angoscia (Rome, Capitoline Museums 2015), O jogos da antiguidade (Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, 2016).