Belinda Granata graduated in Art History, in 1998, at Sapienza University of Rome. At the same University, in 2004, she obtained a diploma at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell’Arte Medioevale e Moderna, and, in 2008, Ph.D in "Strumenti e Metodi per la Storia dell’Arte", with a thesis on the Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto’s collection, edit in 2012 (Le passioni virtuose. Collezionismo e committenze artistiche a Roma del cardinale Alessandro Peretti Montalto (1571-1623) Campisano ed.).
From 2003 to 2012 she was an external collaborator of the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico del Lazio and Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma.

In 2012, she was fellow in a seminar of doctoral studies by 'École Française de Rome (in collaboration with École Normale Supérieure, Paris, l’Università Paris-7 “Denis Diderot”, l’Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, CNRS École Normale Supérieure Paris, la Fraternità dei Laici di Arezzo, Università di Siena and Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo), entitled Sources for the history of economics (XIII-XVII centuries). The price of things: assessing, paying, count, her research was Economics and Art: buy and collect pictures in the early seventeenth century Rome.
From 2015 to 2016 she was research fellow at University "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, for the FIRB project Gli Orsini e i Savelli nella Roma dei papi. Arte e mecenatismo di antichi casati dal feudo alle corti barocche europee, coordinated by Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata, MIUR 2013. Since 2017 she has been having a collaboration contract to finish the project.
She is also the author of a lot of essays and articles about collecting in the Seventeenth Century, decorative art in the roman palaces and landscape painting between Bologna and Rome.