By Stuart Frost In October last year I wrote about conservation work that had begun on a stained glass panel made around 1496 for the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Bruges, Belgium....
By Stuart Frost In my last blog entry I posted some photographs documenting the installation of the glass roof for the new day-lit gallery, work that took place in July 2009. This...
By Stuart Frost I have spent over seven years, or thereabouts, working on the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. I find it hard to believe that my role on the project has...
By Stuart Frost The pages that illustrate this blog entry are from a magnificent missal in the V&A’s collections, one of the finest surviving examples of a fourteenth...
By Stuart Frost There is an extensive and varied programme of events to support the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. Activities, talks, special projects and lectures will...
By Stuart Frost The first meeting of the Concept Team, a group of four people whose role was to shape and steer the development of the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries,...
By Stuart Frost I’ve chosen to illustrate this blog entry with a manuscript leaf that was orginally part of a choirbook made around 1250, probably in Germany. The leaf is...
By Stuart Frost The Medieval & Renaissance Galleries will open to the public on Wednesday 2nd December 2009. As you might expect installation of the objects and displays is...
By Stuart Frost I’ve written about The Listening Gallery project before. It is a two-year collaboration between the Royal College of Music and the V&A. The project...
By Stuart Frost Earlier this week relics of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux arrived at Westminster Cathedral in London as the culmination of a month long tour of Britain. The reaction...
By Stuart Frost The stained glass panel illustrated here was made around 1496 for the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Bruges, Belgium. The colourful panel depicts an angel holding the...
By Stuart Frost In order to mark the opening of phase one of the Ceramics galleries at the V&A last week I thought I should select a ceramic object for this blog entry....
By Stuart Frost Some objects, like the V&A’s vast tapestry woven with scenes of the Trojan War, have required extensive conservation work to prepare them for...
By Stuart Frost When I last wrote about this Egyptian tunic in June of this year I promised readers that I’d provide an update. The conservation work on this rare survival is...
By Stuart Frost Music was part of daily life in medieval and Renaissance Europe and talented musicians and composers were often as highly regarded or sought after as other...
By Stuart Frost There will be approximately one thousand and eight hundred objects for visitors to enjoy in the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. Regular readers of this blog...
By Stuart Frost A number of events have taken place at the V&A recently as part of the Robert H.Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme, a ten-year programme of...
By Stuart Frost If you’ve been following this blog for a long period of time you’ll know that I’ve written about the tunic from Egypt before (Museum no. 291-1891). In fact...
By Stuart Frost For a dynasty that ran its course almost five hundred years ago the Tudors have a remarkably high profile in popular culture today. Painted portraits of Henry...
By Stuart Frost A major milestone was reached last month when the gallery space that will become The Renaissance City 1350-1600 was handed back to the V&A by the...
By Stuart Frost St George’s day falls this week on Thursday 23 April. I have written about St George previously, in April 2007 in fact, so I’ll try not to repeat myself...
By Stuart Frost The Easter weekend is almost upon us which means that Palm Sunday has already passed. Palm Sunday is an important date in the Christian calendar as it marks the...
By Stuart Frost Regular visitors to South Kensington will have become used to the brightly coloured hoarding that currently runs along a major part of the...
By Stuart Frost & Catia Viegas Wesolowska One of the most extraordinary surviving pieces of Romanesque metalwork is without doubt the Gloucester Candlestick. There will be...
By Stuart Frost Long term readers of this blog will know that the Bayeux Tapestry is a subject that is close to my heart. Conservation work was recently completed on a section of...
By Stuart Frost Regular readers will know that I’ve used this blog to provide occasional updates about a touring exhibition of highlights from the V&A’s medieval and...
By Stuart Frost What does the word Byzantine mean to you? If the answer is not very much I suspect that you’re not alone. The word was one of the period terms we tested...
By Stuart Frost Hunting animals with dogs became a criminal offence in the United Kingdom in February 2005. A recent article in the Times highlighted that the ban remains...
By Stuart Frost Since February 2008 one of the most enigmatic objects in the V&A’s collections, and one of the earliest acquisitions, has been the focus of a remarkable...
By Stuart Frost I have been posting a new blog entry here every two weeks since October 2006. The gap between this posting and the last one is the longest that there has ever...
