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Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures (Reprint Edition) by Professor Michael Baxandall Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1985 ISBN-10: 0-300-03763-5 / 0300037635 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-03763-0 / 9780300037630 This book is an inquiry into the historical understanding of pictures -- something sought not only by art historians but by anyone who looks at a picture in the knowledge that it is old or comes out of a culture different from his own. Michael Baxandall begins by developing a scheme for the explanat |