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  V&A trail: Collection highlights

  importance of global trade at the time: its cut is based on the Japanese kimono and its silk is from China…
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  Transcript – Salon IV: Ephemeral Europe

  If you think about the collections of the Chinese Emperor, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temporal…
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  The wonderful world of Whistler

  The trio were galvanised by an exhibition at the Realist painter François Bonvin's studio in 1859, comprised…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  Depictions of this Buddhist deity originated in India and journeyed over the Himalayas into China.…
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  History of the John Madejski Garden

  When it opened in 1857, just one permanent building, a paintings gallery, had been erected on the east…
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  The architecture of opera houses

  Company, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare's plays with music, performed in a converted tennis court…
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  An A–Z of metalwork

  reaches the ears of the Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, and she invites you to her Imperial Court…
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  An introduction to quilting and patchwork

  specialist craft workshop that would produce work for export to the West as well as for the Mughal court…
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  100 Facts about the V&A

  Reynolds. 26. 35 portraits of European artists and designers were made in mosaic to decorate the South Court…
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  Jameel Prize 2009

  create her designs, Amighi is inspired by a range of Islamic sources, including carpet design, miniature painting…
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  'Entartete Kunst': The Nazis' inventory of 'degenerate art'

  The chief culprits were thought to be Jewish art dealers and critics who used their allegedly disproportionate…
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  The Almain Armourers’ Album

  A 'who's who' of the Elizabethan court Annotations throughout the album record the customers for whom…
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  The story of theatre

  The court masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and…
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  Leslie Linder and the Beatrix Potter collection

  insight into life in Victorian London and her day-to-day irritations, such as the neighbour's regular chimney…
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  Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience

  She graduated from the London College of Communication Bachelor of Arts Photography course in 1994.…
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  Redefining the diva

  These ideas were reinforced by French poet Charles Baudelaire in his Painter of Modern Life, in which…