- David Summers (art historian)
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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 (1963) and a Ph.D. from Yale University (1969). 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 the influential book Real Spaces.
Select list of Summers' publications
- Michelangelo and the Language of Art, Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981.
- The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1987.
- Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism, London: Phaidon 2003.
- Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2007.
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