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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Ocean Floors\, Mountain Peaks\, and the 
 Korallenberge from the Ambras Kunstkammer
DESCRIPTION:\nPresented by Sylvia Tongyan Qiu\, Ph.D. Student\, University 
 of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group
 \n\nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.u
 s/meeting/register/tJwudOytqz8oGNWgHQ9o707obSooHGurrrtq\n\n\nTransfiguring
  between the submarine and the “exterranean” worlds\, red coral branch
 es on the miniature mountains (known as “Korallenberge”) in the Ambras
  Kunstkammer connect the depths of the Mediterranean with Alpine mountains
 capes. In between the corals and the rocks\, models of human-made structur
 es—a castle\, a bridge\, and a Cross—render the three mountainscapes r
 ecognizable: Martinswand near Innsbruck\, Finstermünz fortress in Naunder
 s\, and Covolo di Bustistone overlooking the Brenta Valley. Drawing from r
 ecent scholarship that reconsiders early modern mountainscapes\, landscape
 s\, and wetscapes as productive sites of knowledge\, power\, and material 
 understandings\, this project resituates the Korallenberge within the moun
 tainous sites of Habsburg dominions and in the context of Habsburg mobiliz
 ation of marine and mineral resources from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
 \n\nSylvia Tongyan Qiu is a second-year Ph.D. student in Art History at UC
 LA. Her dissertation examines the relationship between image-making and di
 plomacy at EurAsian courts between the 17th and 18th centuries\, specifica
 lly the transmedial construction of European visions of the Qing Empire th
 rough illustrated ambassadorial accounts. Her research interests also incl
 ude the consumption of gemstones and the transformation of natural product
 s at EurAsian courts. She was the recipient of the 2023–24 Kenneth Karmi
 ole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship from the Center for 17th- and 18t
 h-Century Studies.\n\n\n\nImage: Coral Mountain Representing Covolo di But
 istone\, 16th Century. Coral\, plaster on wooden base\; height: 54 cm. Amb
 ras Castle\, Innsbruck.
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