Professor Dominguez received a B.A. in Fine Art from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, a Masters in Museum Studies and a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her specialty is Renaissance and Baroque art in the Hispanic World, with particular interest in the interaction of Mesoamerican and European visual cultures during the 16th and 17th centuries. She worked as a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Caracas, Venezuela, and wrote the catalogue raisonné for the collections of 17th and 18th century painting. She taught at the University of Toronto courses on Renaissance and Baroque art and the introductory survey in art history. She joined the faculty of the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware in the fall of 2003.

Her current book project, Arma Indorum: Chivalric Images and Values in the Spiritual Conquest of New Spain explores the importance of chivalric ideals in the visual culture of post-Conquest Mexico, from the chivalric spirituality infused by the original missionary enterprise to the appropriation of those military values for the conformation of an idiosyncratic indigenous identity . Her previous scholarly work includes: "Frames for Conversion: The Assimilation of Native Motifs in the Monastic Decoration of New Spain (1540-1580)" (Ph.D. diss.); “Imágenes de dos reinos: las interpretaciones del Juicio Final en el orbe hispánico del seiscientos” (Archivo Español de Arte, 2002); “Negotiating identities: Chivalry and Antiquity at San Miguel Ixmiquilpan” (Proceedings of the XXVII International Colloquium of Art History “Easts-Wests: Art and the Other’s Gaze , Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, forthcoming).

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