Michael Podro, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMichael Podro
British art historian
Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1931
Date of Death: 28-Mar-2008
Profession: art historian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Michael Podro
- Michael Podro (13 March 1931 – 28 March 2008) was a British art historian.
- Podro, the son of Jewish refugees from central Europe, was born in and grew up in Hendon, Middlesex.
- He attended Berkhamsted school in Hertfordshire, served in the RAF, and read English at Jesus College, Cambridge and philosophy at University College London.
- After finishing his PhD in philosophy and art history, he taught at Camberwell College of Arts, the Warburg Institute and Essex University, where he became professor.
- His best known work are from his period here: The Manifold in Perception: Theories of Art from Kant to Hildebrand (1972), and Critical Historians of Art (1982).
- Here Podro argued for bringing philosophical questions to bear on the study of art, as well as the prevailing focus on style, attribution and contextual detail.Podro served as a trustee at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was a fellow of the British Academy.
- In 1961 he married Charlotte Booth, with whom he had two daughters.
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