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  The Rodin Gift to the V&A

  The bronze St John the Baptist was presented to the V&A after a committee of Rodin's supporters set…
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  Huguenot enamellers

  Royal miniatures framed with diamonds were presented by the French King, Louis XIV, to favoured foreign…
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  Fashion in Motion: Catherine Walker

  Largely self-taught, designer Catherine Walker has been influenced by the work of British photographer John…
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  The 'golden age' of couture

  The Théâtre toured to Britain, Scandinavia and the USA, raising funds for war victims and promoting French…
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  The groundbreaking Black models who changed fashion

  Campbell credits this historic moment to the support of French designer Yves Saint Laurent, and the efforts…
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  Transcript – Salon II: Europa and Britannia

  Before, she worked for five years at St John’s College at University of Oxford.…
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  About the Fragmented Illuminations display

  These are collectors, such as Abbot Luigi Celotti, John Ruskin and George Salting, the V&A's first…
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  Performance and the Baroque

  Atys was an example of a tragédie en musique, a type of early French opera.…
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  'The Truth About Modelling' by Jean Shrimpton

  When Larry rang him two years later and told him I was on the covers of the English, French and American…
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  V&A trail: Africans in Europe

  XVI's execution, this sheet of playing cards reflects the ideals and hopes for a new revolutionary French…
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  Robert Adam: Neoclassical architect and designer

  spending five years in France and Italy visiting classical sites and studying architecture under the French…
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  Architectural wallpapers

  Just as hoteliers in America favoured French scenic papers for their spectacular character and their…
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  A history of shopping for wallpaper

  By 1839, French papers were being widely imported throughout Britain.…
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  The Whiplash

  In the play, Salome falls in love with Iokanaan (John the Baptist), but her wish to kiss him is only…
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  Surrealist photography

  The movement was immortalised by the French writer André Breton, who published the first Surrealist Manifesto…
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  The art of the ocean liner travel poster

  Early design trends were led by French masters of the medium, Jules Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Theophile…
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  Julia Margaret Cameron – an introduction

  Her father was an East India Company official and her mother descended from French aristocracy.…
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  Aubrey Beardsley – decadence & desire

  His first finished drawings illustrated his reading of French novels and Restoration drama, but the pursuit…
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  Selling the seaside – British holiday posters

  Some advertising campaigns – for example, John Hassall's jolly fisherman paired with the slogan 'Skegness…
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  The wonderful world of Whistler

  was part of 'Douze eaux-fortes d'après Nature' (Twelve Etchings from Nature), better known as 'The French…