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Cynthia Prieur
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Undergraduate Experience: University of Windsor, B.A. (Honours) in Visual Arts and Art History (Windsor, ON, 2012)
Graduate Experience: Sotheby's Institute of Art in London: MA in Fine and Decorative Art (London, UK, 2014)
MA Thesis: The Legacy of the Flemish Primitives: A Study of the Portraiture of Jean Perréal"
PhD Thesis Research: My dissertation will investigate the Napoleonic appropriations in Italy (1796-1798), and more specifically, the circumstances that led to the looting of Pietro Perugino's paintings from Perugia (1797). I am also studying the fate of these paintings after they arrived in Paris and were dispersed to regional museums in France, where many of them have remained.
Supervisor: Dr. Cathleen Hoeniger