However at the age of thirteen she entered the atelier of the prominent Bolognese painter, Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole.

Here she met her future husband, also a successful painter Felice Torelli, who was regularly sent by the master to the young girl's home to bring her drawings to copy.

The active participation of Lucia and Felice in the Academy contributed to their artistic and social success in Bologna.

In Vite de' Pittori Bolognesi, non descritte nella Felsina Pittrice (1769), the author, Luigi Crespi makes note that:[2]

The church of San Domenico, in Imola, conserves an altarpiece painted by her which depicts Saint Thomas Aquinas.