PONCE, PR.- Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the appointment of a new member to its curatorial staff, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, whose title is Assistant Curator of European Art. Pérez d’Ors, an art historian, was born in Pamplona, Spain. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Navarra and his Ph.D. at Oxford University in England, where he specialized in Spanish Baroque painting. His doctoral thesis was titled “Devotional Painting and Preaching in 17th-Century Spain.” In 2003, Pérez d’Ors joined the National Inventory Research Project at the Northampton Museum, where he was in charge of cataloguing the collection of early European painting. This experience opened the door for his first curatorial work, in 2007, with the National Gallery in London. From 2008 to 2010, Pérez d’Ors was an Andrew Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Frick Collection in New York, an internationally renowned instit