Svetlana Alpers
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 89 |
| Date of birth | February 10,1936 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Cambridge |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Parents | Wassily Leontief |
| Estelle Leontief | |
| Estelle Marks | |
| Grandparents | Eugenia Bekker |
| Wassily W. Leontief | |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols Upper School | |
| Movies/Shows | Dutch Light |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada |
| Books | The Art of Describing |
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| ID | 792264 |
Svetlana Alpers Life story
Svetlana Leontief Alpers 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.