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  Art Nouveau – an international style

  decorative style of the modern age, Art Nouveau was an exotic and decadently modern departure from the French…
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  History of the Cast Courts

  Government School of Design, were classical casts as well as ornamental architectural details from French…
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  The fashionable sweater

  As demand grew, companies such as John Smedley – which had started producing knitted garments in Derbyshire…
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  Auguste Rodin: production techniques

  A prolific French sculptor working in everything from Sèvres porcelain to marble, Carrier-Belleuse was…
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  About the Tropical Modernism exhibition

  They invited French architect Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects and urban planners…
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  Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks

  bound into three codices (a bound book made up of several pages) called the Forster Codices, after John…
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  The development of British opera

  Purcell and English semi-opera For decades, Italian and French opera failed to make an impact in England…
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  Bill Brandt – setting the scene

  It was based on Paris de Nuit (1936) by the French photographer Brassaï.…
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  The influence of East Asian lacquer on European furniture

  printed designs like those in the widely-circulated book A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, by John…
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  James 'Athenian' Stuart

  These were eclectic in design – fusing Baroque forms with elements taken from early French Neoclassicism…
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  Renaissance music

  by Claudin de Sermisy, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance chanson (a lyrical song with French…
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  Portrait miniatures painted in enamel

  The 1806 enamel portrait of Captain John Whitby graces the cover of a locket, which holds a memorial…
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  What is watercolour?

  in 1834, the term 'bodycolour' also came to describe watercolour mixed with white (the alternative French…
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  Collecting Europe - artist commissions

  Thibaut de Ruyter is a French architect, curator and critic.…
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  Introducing Beatrix Potter

  Glossop, Derbyshire, and later became a Liberal MP for Carlisle, whilst Beatrix's maternal grandfather, John…
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  A history of food posters

  The late 19th century was the heyday of French poster design, when the likes of Jules Chéret (1836 –…
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  The story of theatre

  Audiences were furious and turned their anger on the theatre's manager, the actor John Philip Kemble.…
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  A history of puppets in Britain

  The tight-rope walking marionette was based on the real French tightrope-walker Chevalier Blondin, who…
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  Embroidery – a history of needlework samplers

  The English word 'sampler' derives from the Latin 'exemplum', or the old French term 'essamplaire', meaning…
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  100 Facts about the V&A

  An unusual portrait (and John Ruskin's most hated work of art) is the sculpture of 'Bashaw, the faithful…