Svetlana Alpers

Author

Artist, art historian and critic

1936 -

country of citizenship: United States of America
language of expression: English
educated at: Harvard University, Radcliffe College
occupation: art historian, university teacher
award received: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Harvard Centennial Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Harvard University

Svetlana Leontief Alpers (born February 10, 1936) is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing. She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among others.
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