Svetlana Alpers

Svetlana Alpers ( born February 10, 1936) is an emeritus professor of art history at UC Berkeley, California.

Career

The daughter of the economist Wassily Leontief completed her studies at Radcliffe College in 1957 with a BA from. At Harvard University, she has a doctorate in 1965. In 1962 she began to teach at Berkeley History of Art, where she remained until her retirement in 1994.

Memberships and Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1957-8
  • Kathryn McHale Fellowship, AAUW, 1961-2
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972-3
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1975-6
  • ACLS Fellowship, 1978-1979
  • Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study ( NIAS ), Wassenaar, 1979
  • Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1979-1980
  • Eugene M. Kayen Prize in 1983 for "The Art of Describing " as the best book by an American university press in the discipline of the humanities
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Berkeley, 1986
  • Visiting Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1987-1988
  • Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1991
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, 1992-1993

Works (selection)

  • The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Brussels / London, 1971.
  • The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, German, Art: Description - Dutch painting of the 17th century, Cologne 1985
  • Rembrandt 's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, German: Rembrandt as an entrepreneur. Its market and his studio, Cologne 1989
  • Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994 ( with Michael Baxandall ), German 1996.
  • The Making of Rubens, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
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