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 Georges Didi-Huberman FBA

History and theory of art, anthropology of images and imagination, Renaissance to the contemporary era

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Professor Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba FBA

History of music and music theory focused on Latin texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern era; the reception of the ancient writings on music up to 1600

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Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA

Islamic art, with particular reference to Iran and Syria; medieval architecture, book painting and iconography

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