Svetlana Alpers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Svetlana Alpers

Artist, art historian and critic

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1936

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: university teacher, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.