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Michael Baxandall

British art historian (1933–2008)

Died aged 74LeoUnited Kingdom

Biography

Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA (18 August 1933 – 12 August 2008) 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. 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.

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Career highlights

Employers / organisations

  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Cornell University
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Warburg Institute

Awards & honours (4)

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

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Michael Baxandall died on August 12, 2008 at the age of 74.
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Michael Baxandall was born on August 18, 1933.
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Michael Baxandall was born in Cardiff.
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Michael Baxandall's zodiac sign is Leo.
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Michael Baxandall is a citizen of United Kingdom.
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