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Svetlana Alpers

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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.

Books

The Art of Describing
The Art of Describing
Svetlana Alpers
Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Svetlana Alpers
Arte de Descrever: A Arte Holandesa no Século XVII, A
Arte de Descrever: A Arte Holandesa no Século XVII, A
Svetlana Alpers
Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Svetlana Alpers
Svetlana Alpers
The Art of Describing
Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
The Art of Describing
Svetlana Alpers
The Vexations of Art
The Vexations of Art
Svetlana Alpers
The Vexations of Art
The Vexations of Art
Svetlana Alpers
Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence
Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence
Svetlana Alpers, Michael Baxandall
The Making of Rubens
The Making of Rubens
Svetlana Alpers
The Making of Rubens
The Making of Rubens
Svetlana Alpers
The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada
The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada
Svetlana Alpers, Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt's Enterprise
Rembrandt's Enterprise
Svetlana Alpers

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