found: Wikipedia, January 29, 2018(Svetlana Alpers; 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, and is one of the most influential American art historians of her generation; she received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1957 and a Ph. D.from Harvard in 1965; she was a professor of art history at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 to 1998, and by 1994 she was named Professor Emerita; Svetlana Leontief was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; she was the only child of Wassily Leontief, a political refugee from the Soviet Union and Nobel laureate economist who pioneered computer modeling, and the poet Estelle Marks; in 1958 she married and changed her last name to Alpers)
