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Michael Baxandall

British art historian (1933-2008) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 74

Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA was a British art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Awards

Aby Warburg Prize1988
MacArthur Fellows Program
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

About this person

His book Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy was profoundly influential in the social history of art, and is (2018) widely used as a textbook in college courses.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1933 to 2008 · aged 74