Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA

Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Art history

Current post

University of California, Berkeley Professor Emerita, Department of the History of Art

New York University Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Paul Binski FBA

Western European art and architecture 1100-1400; royal and ecclesiastical patronage; the art of liturgy and death; hagiography; wall, panel and manuscript painting; Cambridge illuminated manuscripts; international artistic relations.

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Professor Martin Stokes FBA

Ethnomusicology and anthropology of music, with particular reference to Europe, the Middle East and the Islamic World

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Professor Roger Parker FBA

The history of opera, particularly in 19th-century Italy; editorial work on Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini; critical theory; film music

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