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Sarah Schroth, senior curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, will be knighted by the Spanish Ambassador to the United States.

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Ambassador Jorge Dezcallar will bestow the insignia and title of Knight-Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic — one of Spain's highest civil honors — on Schroth at a fund-raising gala at the Nasher Museum.

“Don Juan Carlos I, king of Spain, is pleased to honor Sarah Schroth for her outstanding contributions to the dissemination of Spanish culture in the United States,” Dezcallar said.

“She has helped to introduce to the world great Spanish masters of painting and sculpture who lived and worked with the famous El Greco and Velázquez, but who have until now been relatively unknown.”