Svetlana Leontief Alpers

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Svetlana Leontief Alpers (1936-) is a noted American art historian. She is a university professor and a consultant to both National Public Radio and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father was Wassily Leontief.

Svetlana received her B.A. from Ratcliffe in 1957 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1965. She was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley starting in 1962. Her specialty was 17th Century Dutch art.

Alpers has written several books on Art History topics. Among these are Rembrant's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988). She also wrote The Vexations of Art: Velazquez and Others (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005)

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Bowman, John S. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) p. 14.