David L. Summers
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1941 –
Who is David L. Summers?
David Summers is the 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 and a Ph.D. from Yale University. 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. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.
Summers is generally regarded as an expert on Renaissance art and a notable figure in the field of art historical research. Amongst his main contributions to art history is David Summers' publication Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. This almost 700 pages book is the result of twenty years of studies and it is an attempt to reformulate the disciplinary approach of art history.
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- Born
- 1941
- Also known as
- David Summers
- Education
- Brown University
- Yale University
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on July 23, 2013
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