Michael Baxandall

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. Provided by Wikipedia