Carol’s most recent books include Gilio's Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters (2018) in collaboration with Michael Bury and Lucy Byatt and Old Saint Peter’s, Rome (2013) which came out of a conference she co-organised in Rome. She has published two books on Renaissance cardinals: her monograph Reclaiming Rome (2009), which was described in reviews as ‘a milestone’ and ‘essential reading’, and The Possessions of a Cardinal (2011) co-edited with Mary Hollingsworth).
She has also written for and edited widely-used text books, including the anthology of primary sources, Renaissance Art Reconsidered (Blackwell, 2006).
From October 2018 to June 2019 she is Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, completing her book, The Last English Catholic Church Remaining in the World: Art and Sacred Geography in the 1580s.
She has just finished a book chapter on the dress and regalia of early modern cardinals for the Brill Research Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal and an article on Andrea Sansovino for Sculpture Journal.