![]() ![]() Baxandall never completed his dissertation, but he would later take a position as lecturer at the Warburg.īaxandall’s originality stems in part from his equally keen interest in language, in art, in cultural history, and in science, especially the science of vision. ![]() He undertook graduate work at the Warburg Institute at the University of London under Sir Ernst Gombrich, a great pioneer in the study of the psychology of perception and the communicative qualities of visual art. He retired in 1996.īorn in Cardiff, Wales, on August 18, 1933, Baxandall was educated at Cambridge University (where he took a degree in literature in 1954), the University of Pavia in Italy, and the University of Munich in Germany. Having visited the campus as Una Lecturer in 1982, he joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1985. ![]() Michael Baxandall, probably the most influential art historian of the latter half of the twentieth century, died August 12, 2008, of pneumonia related to Parkinson’s disease. ![]()
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