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

Elected 2014

Fellow type: Corresponding Fellow
Year elected: 2014
Subjects: Art history
Website: http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/alperss.htm

Current post

Professor Emerita, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, New York University

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