# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/svetlana-alpers
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:47:16.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/svetlana-alpers"
name: "Svetlana Alpers"
slug: "svetlana-alpers"
description: "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 1983 book The Art of Describing. She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among others."
tagline: "Artist, art historian and critic"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.031824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سویتلانا الپرس"
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    title: "Svetlana Alpers"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump