Alpers, Svetlana

LC control no.	n 82059588
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Alpers, Svetlana *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Leontief, Svetlana, 1936-
Birth date	1936-02-10
Place of birth	Cambridge (Mass.)
Affiliation	University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupation	Art historians Authors College teachers Critics
Found in	Author's The decoration of the Torre de la Parada, 1971. Tiepolo and the pictorial intelligence, 1994: CIP t.p. (Svetlana Alpers) data sheet (b. 02-10-36) Wikipedia, January 29, 2018 (Svetlana Alpers; 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, and is one of the most influential American art historians of her generation; she received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1957 and a Ph. D.from Harvard in 1965; she was a professor of art history at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 to 1998, and by 1994 she was named Professor Emerita; Svetlana Leontief was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; she was the only child of Wassily Leontief, a political refugee from the Soviet Union and Nobel laureate economist who pioneered computer modeling, and the poet Estelle Marks; in 1958 she married and changed her last name to Alpers)
Associated language	eng