She was mentioned as a candidate to succeed Thomas Hoving as the Metropolitan Museum's director in 1977, but the post went to Philippe de Montebello.
[3] Raggio's research concentrated on Renaissance and Baroque sculpture, notably Alessandro Algardi and Gianlorenzo Bernini.
[4] Her investigations resulted in the rediscovery of two sculptures (Priapus and Flora) by the Berninis, father and son, which were found in the garden of Delbarton School in a Benedictine abbey in Morristown, New Jersey,[5][6] as well as a bust of Cosimo I de' Medici by Baccio Bandinelli, which had been locked away in a vault in a Swiss bank.
[3] Raggio organised some of the museum's most famous exhibitions including The Splendour of Dresden (1978) and The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art (1983).
She taught courses informed by her own research interest, notably Alessandro Algardi, Italian renaissance bronzes and the Studiolo.