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2007 · Inkjet print
17 1/2 × 9" (44.5 × 22.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Svetlana Alpers
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WA-00033489
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6
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13
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Svetlana Alpers is an American art historian whose scholarship has fundamentally altered the study of Northern European painting and visual culture. Her research centers on Dutch Golden Age representations of perspective, image-making, and the epistemological stakes of painting itself. Her work established new frameworks for understanding how seventeenth-century artists conceived the relationship between vision, knowledge, and pictorial form.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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- MoMA6 publishedof 12 catalogued12 img
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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