1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Global Art Histories
Biography
Diana Newall is a freelance lecturer and writer. Her current research project focuses on Renaissance Crete and the rise of the icon in the late fifteenth century, after the fall of the Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Of particular interest is the development of hybrid icon forms which were in great demand across Western Europe in the late fifteenth century. In association with this project, she is working with Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou on a workshop and publication related to cross-cultural interactions between Byzantine and western societies in the Palaiologan and Renaissance Mediterranean.
Grant Pooke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and also of the Higher Education Academy. Grant has tutored for the Open University (including roles as an Authoring Consultant and as a Co-Curriculum Adviser/Art History for the Teach& Learn Project), the University of Kent’s School of Continuing Education, the Workers’ Educational Association and for the Kent Institute of Art & Design (now UCCA). He holds a Postgraduate Journalism Diploma from the London School of Printing & Distributive Trades. Grant initiated the setting up of the University of Kent’s first dedicated, part-time, open-entry BA Honours degree programme in Art History.
Leon Wainwright is a Lecturer at The Open University.
