Professor Andrew Henry Robert Martindale, M.A.

Andrew Martindale was born in Bombay, the son of the Archdeacon, on 19 December 1932, and educated at Christ Church Choir School, Oxford, Westminster School and New College, Oxford, where he read history. He acquired the postgraduate diploma of the Courtauld Institute of Art with Distinction in 1958 and worked for a year with Nikolaus Pevsner, F.S.A., on the counties of Surrey and Norfolk for The Buildings of England. He was then appointed by Anthony Blunt to be lecturer in medieval and Renaissance studies at the Courtauld Institute and remained there for six years. In 1965 Martindale began his distinguished career at the University of East Anglia's School of Fine Arts and Music under Peter Lasko, F.S.A., who had founded U.E.A.'s department of art history, and whom Martindale succeeded as Professor of Visual Art in 1974. The splendid gift to the university in 1978 of the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury collection, and the construction of Norman Foster's Centre which houses it (the architect's first public building), brought their own urgent challenges, but a greatly strengthened department eventually emerged as the School of World Art Studies and Museology. Indeed, one of Martindale's particular achievements was securing recognition and `special factor' resources for university museums and art galleries when they were vulnerable to destructive cuts in funding. His beautiful speaking voice and measured prose lent elegance to the congregation ceremonies at which he officiated as Public Orator, and his talents as a pianist and harpsichordist delighted his many friends, students and colleagues to the end. His scholarship centred on the art and architecture of the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, on which he published a number of important works: Man and the Renaissance (1967); Gothic Art (1967); The Rise of the Artist (1972); The Triumphs of Caesar by Andrea Mantegna (1979); and Simone Martini (1988). A publication which gave him particular pleasure to edit, jointly with Alan Borg, F.S.A., was The Vanishing Past, Studies of Medieval Art, Liturgy and Metrology Presented to Christopher HohlerBulletin and journal, Art History, were instrumental in establishing art history as a healthy discipline in British universities; and he further strengthened the subject's position in his capacity as adviser on art history to the University Grants Committee and chairman of the art history panel in the first Research Assessment exercise. He was for many years a member of the Council for the Care of Churches, the Norwich Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee and the Aylsham Association, where he and his medievalist wife lived in the Elizabethan farmhouse they had lovingly restored. A gentle, contemplative figure, much liked, he was a member of the Society's Executive Committee from 1989-94 and died on 29 May 1995.

(1981). He had been strongly influenced as a student at the Courtauld Institute by Christopher Hohler, F.S.A., who taught his students to consult contemporary archives, literary texts and classical authors when engaged on some art historical project. At the time of his death Martindale had almost completed a book on secular palace decoration. He was a founder member of the Association of Art Historians whose annual conferences,