Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds.

• 1. Patterns in the Shadows: Attention in/to the Writings of Michael Baxandall: Michael Anne Holly (University of Rochester). 2. Aspects of the Critical Reception and Intellectual History of Baxandall's Concept of the Period Eye: Alland Langdale (University of British Columbia).3. Limewood, Chiromancy and Narratives of Making. Writing about the Materials and Processes of Sculpture: Malcolm Baker (Victoria and Albert Museum).4. Michael Baxandall and the Shadows in Plato's Cave: Alex Potts (University of Reading).5. Last Words (Rilke, Wittgenstein)(Duchamp): Molly Nesbit (Vassar University).6. Women under the Gaze, a Renaissance Genealogy: Paolo Berdini (Stanford University).7. A Baxandall Bibliography: Allan Langdale (University of California at Santa Barbara).