Painting the Palace

Painting the PalaceAndrew Martindale's collection of essays study secular painting history in medieval and early Renaissance Italy, emphasising evidence for secular decoration in Venice, Siena and Mantua, shedding light on a lesser explored facet of early Italian art.

At a time when both China’s role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment

Previously published in Russian

The book makes a case for a subaltern voice speaking and argues that subaltern writing constitutes the silent underside of world literature whose canon it silently challenges and subverts

online databases and nature documentaries

and how did this affect what - and how - women wrote

this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are invited to ‘do it yourself

from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair

Reconstructing this ‘woman’s world’ from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources

ethnic minorities

this book highlights how and why politics was visualised

encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems

and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area