Svetlana Alpers is professor emeritus of History of Art at UC Berkeley and visiting scholar at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is one of the most distinguished and influential art historians of her generation. Her books include The Art of Describing (1983), Rembrandt’s Enterprise (1988), The Making of Rubens (1995), and, with Michael Baxandall, Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence (1994).