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DESCRIPTION:Mónica Domínguez Torres will present at the Mr. and Mrs. Raymon
 d J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
  on Tuesday\, March 29\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “Heavenly Pearls: N
 ature\, Religion\, and Politics in Habsburg Spain.”In 1616\, the image of 
 Our Lady of the Sagrario was placed in her own chapel at Toledo Cathedral\
 , splendidly covered with various pearl-studded garments\, including a clo
 ak embroidered with 78\,000 natural pearls. The Virgin’s makeover coincide
 d with the “pearl rush” that occurred in the Caribbean and the Pacific coa
 sts of central America throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth cent
 ury. In this seminar\, Professor Domínguez uses the Virgin’s luxurious gar
 ments as a springboard to explore some of the connotations and functions t
 hat the organic gems acquired in Spain under Habsburg rule. Believed since
  antiquity to be wondrously engendered\, in imperial Spain pearls became t
 he material of choice to exalt the immaculate nature of the Virgin Mary\, 
 a fundamental tenet within the Habsburg “universal monarchy.”Born and rais
 ed in Venezuela\, Mónica Domínguez Torres obtained an MA in museum studies
  and a PhD in the history of art from the University of Toronto\, Canada. 
 In September 2003\, she joined the Department of Art History at the Univer
 sity of Delaware\, where she serves as associate professor and director of
  graduate studies\, and holds a joint appointment in Latin American and Ib
 erian studies. She specializes in the arts of the early modern Iberian Wor
 ld\, with particular interest in cross-cultural exchanges between Spain an
 d the Americas during the period 1500–1700. Her first book\, Military Etho
 s and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico (Ashgate\, 2013)\, investigat
 es the significance of military images and symbols in sixteenth-century Me
 xico\, showing how certain martial notions and symbols created cultural br
 idges between Mesoamericans and Europeans. She has also published several 
 essays on the production\, regulation\, and consumption of Indigenous hera
 ldry in Mexico and Peru. Since 2009\, she has worked on her second book\, 
 Pearls for the Crown\, which analyzes a series of early modern artworks re
 lated to the Atlantic pearl industry. Her research in this field has been 
 recognized with grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
  Humanities\, the Getty Research Institute\, the Renaissance Society of Am
 erica\, and the Bard Graduate Center\, among others.We have opened registr
 ation for a limited in-person audience. Bard Graduate Center requires proo
 f of vaccination and photo identification to enter the building. Guests ar
 e required to wear masks regardless of vaccination status.This talk will a
 lso be available on Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 4 pm
  on the day of the event. This event will be live with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Heavenly Pearls: Nature\, Religion\, and Poli
 tics in Habsburg Spain
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