Svetlana Alpers (b. 1936)

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American art historian, specialising in Dutch Golden Age painting, although she has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Breugel, and Velázquez, among others. Also an artist and critic. Assistant, Associate, and then Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley 1962-94; Professor Emerita (and Professor in the Graduate School 1994-98) University of California, Berkeley 1994-