Investigación

Líneas de investigación

• Arte y cultura material en el mundo ibérico del Renacimiento
  
•  Intercambios interculturales entre España y América durante el período 1500-1700
• Significado de imágenes y símbolos marciales en el centro de México del seiscientos
• Relación del arte con la industria perlífera del Atlántico
• Interacción entre materialidad, mano de obra y poder

Publicaciones

Libros

•  Pearls for the Crown: European Courtly Art and the Atlantic Pearl Trade, 1498-1728 (in progress).
  
•  Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Reviewed in: Julia Banwell, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 93-5 (2016), 571-2; Martín Vega Olmedo, The English Historical Review 131-551 (2016), 905-7; Cristina Cruz González, Colonial Latin American Review 24-1 (2015), 112-4; Patrick Hajovsky, Renaissance Quarterly 67-4 (2014), 1364-5; Peter Mason, Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual 23 (2014), 256-9. 

Catálogos

• Colección de pintura de los siglos XVII y XVIII. Galería de Arte Nacional [National Art Gallery. 17th- and 18th-century painting collection]. Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1999. Catalogue raisonée. Author of introductory text and all catalogue entries.
  
• Naturalezas muertas en la Colección Galería de Arte Nacional [Still-Lives in the National Art Gallery Collection]. Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1995. Exhibit catalogue. Exhibit curator and catalogue author.
  
• Presencia y representación divina [Divine Presence and Representation]. Maracaibo: Arquidiócesis de Maracaibo, Secretaría de Cultura del Estado Zulia, 1994. Exhibit guide. Exhibit co-curator (with Víctor Fuenmayor) and guide author.

Edición de revistas

• Objects in Motion: Visual and Material Culture Across Colonial North America, special issue of Winterthur Portfolio 45-2/3 (2011). Co-editor with Wendy Bellion.

Capítulos de libro

• “Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry” in: The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Cultures Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, in press. 
• “Nel piu ricco paese del Mondo: Cubagua Island as an Epicenter of the Early Atlantic Trade” in: Circulación: Movement of Ideas, Art and People in Spanish America. Denver: Frederick & Jan Mayer Center, Denver Art Museum, 2018, 14-39.
• “Networks of Faith: Cultic Images and Objects in the Spanish Colonial World” in: Power and Piety. Spanish Colonial Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (exhibition catalog). Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 2015, 42-53.
• With Wendy Bellion, “Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History” in: A Companion to American Art, edited by John Davis, Jennifer Greenhill, and Jason LaFountain. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, 193-210.
  
• “Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean: Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas” in: African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States, edited by Persephone Braham. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2015, 73-82.
• “Los escudos de armas indígenas y el lenguaje heráldico castellano a comienzos del siglo XVI” in: Los escudos de armas indígenas: de la colonia al México independiente, edited by María Castañeda de la Paz and Hans Roskamp. Mexico City: Colegio de Michoacán, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, 2013, 21-48. 
• “Emblazoning Identity: Indigenous Heraldry in Colonial Mexico and Peru” in: Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, edited by Ilona Katzew. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, pp. 96-115. Translated into Spanish by the author as: “Identidades heráldicas: los blasones indígenas en México y Perú durante el periodo colonial” in: Miradas Comparadas en los Virreinatos de América, edited by Ilona Katzew. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2012, 96-115.
• “Claiming Ancestry and Lordship: Heraldic Language and Native Identity in Post-Conquest Mexico” in: Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From the Conquest to Globalization, edited by Eleni Kefala. London: Blackwell, 2011, 70-86.
• “Heraldry and Native Identity in 16th-Century New Spain: The Case of Texcoco’s Coat of Arms” in: Images of the Body Politic, edited by Giuseppe Cascione, Donato Mansueto and Gabriel Guarino. Milan: Edizzioni Ennerre, 2007, 9-23.
• “Negotiating Identities: Chivalry and Antiquity at St Michael Ixmiquilpan (Hidalgo, Mexico),” in: XXVII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. Orientes-Occidentes: el arte y la mirada del otro, edited by Gustavo Curiel. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2007, 597-613.

Artículos

• “Havana’s Fortunes: ‘Entangled Histories’ in Copley’s Watson and the Shark” American Art 30-2 (2016): 8-13. 
• With Wendy Bellion, “Editors’ Introduction” in: Objects in Motion: Visual and Material Culture Across Colonial North America, special issue of Winterthur Portfolio 45-2/3 (2011): 101-106.
• “¿Una visión frustrada? Un lienzo de Miguel Cabrera y la residencia jesuita en la Maracaibo colonial [A Frustrated Vision? A Miguel Cabrera and the Jesuit Residence in Colonial Maracaibo]” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 90 (2007): 177-188.
• “Artistic Dis/Placements in Colonial Maracaibo” Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 6-1 (2005), http://www.udel.edu/LASP/Vol6-1Dominguez.html.
• “Imágenes de dos reinos: las interpretaciones del Juicio Final en el orbe hispánico del seiscientos” [Images of Two Kingdoms: Last Judgment Scenes in the 16th-Century Spanish World] Archivo Español de Arte 75-299 (2002): 327-334.

Entradas de diccionario

• “Lam, Wifredo,” “Lisboa, Antônio Francisco,” “Monte Carmelo, Jesuíno do,” “Silva, Valentim da Fonseca e” in: Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Franklin W. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 

Reseñas

• Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches edited by Thomas B.F. Cummins, Emily Engel, Barbara Anderson, and Juan Ossio. Manuscripta 61-1 (2017): 111-5.
  
• Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment by Daniela Bleichmar. William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 71-2 (2014): 313-5.
  
• Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820 by Dana Leibsohn and Barbara Mundy. Winterthur Portfolio 46-1 (2012): 97-8. 
• The Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain by Michael Schreffler. caa.reviews (October 15, 2009), DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.104
• Actas del II Congreso Internacional de la Vera Cruz edited by Mariano García-Esteller Guerrero and Diego Marín Ruiz de Assín. Confraternitas 13-2 (2002). 
• Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy. Ritual, Spectacle, Image edited by Barbara Wish and Diane Cole. Confraternitas 11-2 (2000). 

Conferencias últimos 5 años

• Febrero 2019 “Between Redemption and Damnation: Philip II’s Pearls,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. Session title: Art and Materiality in the Age of Global Encounters,
  1492–1898.
• Diciembre 2018 “Pearls for the King: Philip II and the New World Pearl Industry,” Symposium Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective, Princeton University Art Museum.
  
• Julio 2018 “La industria perlífera americana y la transformación del conocimiento europeo,” 56th International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, Spain. Session title: Fragmentos de mundo en tránsito. Objetos, artefactos y actores en circulación entre América y Europa (siglos XVI-XIX).
• Febrero 2018 “Art and Materiality in the Age of European Expansion,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Session title: Material Culture and Art History: A State of the Field(s)."
  
• Noviembre 2017 “Miraculous Images in the Spanish World,” scholar talk for the exhibition Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IO
  
• Junio 2017 “Columbus’s Odyssey Illustrated: The Lasting Impact of Theodor de Bry’s Images of the Spanish Conquest,” Convening of scholars for the exhibition Creando Historia/Making History in the Americas, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
• Diciembre 2016 “Of Looted Treasures and Stolen Images: Depictions of Pearl Trade in the Spanish Atlantic,” Conference Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850, 6th Biannual Conference of the European Early American Studies Association, Paris, France. Session: Narratives of Others.
• Octubre 2016 With Carla Guerrón-Montero, “Representing Amazon Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” Perspectives talk in conjunction with the exhibition “The Ese’Eja People of the Amazon: Connected by a Thread,” Old  College Gallery, University of Delaware.
• Octubre 2016 “Nel piu ricco paese del Mondo: Cubagua Island as Epicenter of the Early Caribbean Trade," Symposium Circulación: Movement of Ideas, Art and People in Spanish America, Frederick & Jan Mayer Center, Denver Art Museum, Denver. 
• Junio 2016 “The Island of Pearls: Palimpsest, Perspective, and Ethnography in Early Modern Depictions of the Caribbean Pearl Trade,” Conference Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’, Washington DC and the University of Maryland.
• Abril 2016 “Imperial Gems: The Atlantic Pearl Trade in the Early Modern Imagination,” Made in the Americas Lunchtime Lecture Series, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE.
• Abril 2016 “Dislocation, Disjuncture, and Dispute in Representations of the Caribbean Pearl Trade,” Keynote lecture, 2016 Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.r
• Marzo 2015 “All the World’s Weapons in One Room: The Uffizi Armory as a Metaphor of Colonial Exchange,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany. Session title: Mobility, Stasis, and Artistic Exchange in the Global Renaissance II.

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