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 Roberta Gilchrist FBA

Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey

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Professor Dawn Ades FBA

History of Art;Central America; South America; USA, Canada, Mexico; Eastern Europe; Southern Europe; Western Europe

Dawn Ades (BAR 32)

Professor Elizabeth Anne Lambourn FBA

Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500

Elizabeth Anne Lambourn (credit Mikael Wallerstedt)

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