# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-summers-q5240176
# Generated: 2026-08-21T00:36:37.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-summers-q5240176"
name: "David Summers"
slug: "david-summers-q5240176"
description: "John David Summers is the Emeritus William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Virginia. He holds a B.A. from Brown University (1963) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (1969). He taught at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pittsburgh before accepting an appointment to the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia in 1981. In 1984, he was appointed William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the History of Art and retired in 2015. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           2.405292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  31
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد سامرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Summers_(art_historian)"
    title: "David Summers (art historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5240176"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations