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DESCRIPTION:Nuno Senos will be coming to speak in the Seminar in\nCultural 
 History Wednesday\, November 10\, 2010\, on “A Ducal Inventory in\nSixteen
 th-Century Portugal: From the Caribbean to China.”\n\nNuno Senos is the Re
 sident Director of the Council on\nInternational Educational Exchange Stud
 y Center in Lisbon and Associate\nResearcher at the Centro de História de 
 Além-Mar in the Faculdade de Ciências\nSociais e Humanas at the Universida
 de Nova de Lisboa\, Portugal\, where he is\nProject Manager for the resear
 ch group dedicated to The Arts and the\nPortuguese Empire (since 2006). He
  received his B.A. and M.A. from the\nUniversidade Nova de Lisboa\, Portug
 al\, in History and Art History (1996 &\n2000) and Ph.D. from New York Uni
 versity’s Institute of Fine Arts (2006). He\nhas been the recipient of a n
 umber of awards and fellowships including\, the\nFundação para a Ciência e
  Tecnologia Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2007\, the\nAmerican Academy of Fr
 anciscan Studies Dissertation Fellowship in 2005 and\n2006\, and Andrew W.
  Mellon Fellowship in Spanish and Latin American Art\nHistory\, from 2003 
 to 2005.Dr. Senos is the author of O Paço da Ribeira. 1501-1581 (2002)\,\n
 a history of the former royal palace of Lisbon\, and has contributed to nu
 merous\nbooks and exhibition catalogues including\, “Buildings at war: Fra
 nciscan\narchitecture in colonial Brazil” in The Arts of South America\, 1
 492-1850 (2010)\;\n“‘Uma abominável guerra civil’: arquitectura franciscan
 a no Brasil colonial” in Matrizes\nda Arquitectura Cristã (2009)\; “A igre
 ja do convento de São Francisco de\nPortalegre: história de um edifício” i
 n Igreja do convento de São\nFrancisco: arquitectura (2008)\; “The Arts of
  Brazil Before the Golden Age”\nin Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and th
 e World in the Sixteenth and\nSeventeen Centuries (2007)\; and “The Art of
  Silver in Colonial Brazil” in The\nArts of Colonial Latin America\, (2006
 ).Dr. Senos’s talk is entitled\, “A Ducal Inventory in\nSixteenth-Century 
 Portugal: From the Caribbean to China.” Following the death\nof Teodosio\,
  the 5th duke of Braganza\, in 1563\, an inventory of the\ncontents of his
  most important palace\, in Vila Viçosa was made. In over 600\npages and a
 bout 6300 entries\, the complete contents of the duke’s and his\nfamily’s 
 possessions is listed\, from his clothes\, furniture and tapestries\, to\n
 the buttons in his shirts and his pots and pans. A collective research pro
 ject\nwas put together to analyze various aspects of this incredibly rich 
 document\,\nthe largest surviving 16th-century Portuguese inventory and an
  extraordinary\nsource of information of all kinds. This paper references 
 several theoretical\nand methodological issues the research group had to f
 ace and solve\, and\npresents a statistical and critical summary of the in
 ventory’s contents\,\nfocusing especially on the entries that relate to th
 e Portuguese empire. These\ninclude objects whose origins span from China 
 to the Caribbean\, as well as\nmaps\, books and a number of scientific ins
 truments that provide us information\nabout the empire. Finally\, this pap
 er analyzes the nature of the duke’s\n“imperial” belongings and their plac
 ement inside his palace in light of the\nidea of the wünderkammer\, which 
 was emerging at the time.Please RSVP and join us in the Lecture Hall at 38
  West 86th\nStreet\, between Columbus Ave and Central Park West\, at 5:45p
 m for a reception\nbefore the talk.
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