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Dr. Chloe Portugeis

About Dr. Chloe Portugeis

Dr. Chloe Portugeis received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 where she specialized in Victorian art. She has presented papers at CUNY and Vanderbilt University and worked as a research assistant at the Yale Center for British Art and as an intern for Venice Guggenheim and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer - detail — This master of texture was wildly popular in the nineteenth century. Why was he forgotten during the twentieth?

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Listening to Homer

by Dr. Chloe Portugeis

Frederic Leighton, Bath of Psyche - detail — Removing nearly all references to myth, Leighton focuses on the beauty of the nude and harmonious colors.

Sir Frederic Leighton, Bath of Psyche

by Dr. Chloe Portugeis

John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott -detail — Cursed by a spell that will kill her if she leaves her castle, this romantic redhead takes a fatal boat ride.

John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott

by Dr. Chloe Portugeis