Victoria and Albert Museum

Europe 1600-1815,Victoria & Albert Museum. LONDON.- The installation of nearly 1,100 objects has completed as the V&A opens its new suite of galleries dedicated to the arts of living in Europe between 1600 and 1815. Seven galleries transformed for the redisplay of the Museum’s unrivalled collection of 17th- and 18thcentury European art and design will be open to the public from 9 December 2015. A major part of the V&A’s ongoing redevelopment programme known as FuturePlan, the £12.5m project has been made... [Lire la suite]

François Boucher, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721–64) France, 1758. Oil on Canvas, V&A: 487-1882 ©Victoria and Albert Museum / V&A Images PERTH.- The Art Gallery of Western Australia is gearing up to host its second major international exhibition of the year ‐ a treasure trove of European decorative art from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600 – 1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum comprises more than 90 magnificent artworks and objects, rarely... [Lire la suite]

Sleeveless white felt dress with large collar, Yohji Yamamoto, Autumn/Winter 1996-7, Juste des Vêtements exhibition, Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris, 2005 © Courtesy of Gael Amzalag LONDON.- This spring the V&A opened the first UK solo exhibition celebrating the life and work of Yohji Yamamoto, one of the world's most influential and enigmatic fashion designers. This installation-based retrospective, taking place 30 years after his Paris debut, features over 80 garments spanning Yamamoto’s career. The exhibition explores... [Lire la suite]

Raphael, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. Photo © Vatican Museums LONDON.- The V&A announces that four of the ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City will go on show in September 2010. These are the original tapestries from the only series designed by Raphael of which examples survive, and are comparable with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling as masterpieces of High Renaissance art. The tapestries will be displayed alongside the full-size designs for them – the famous Raphael Cartoons,... [Lire la suite]

The Walpole Cabinet, designed by Horace Walpole and William Kent, cabinet attributed to William Hallett, figures by J.F. Verskovis and medallions by Andrea Pozzo, 1743. Museum no. W.52-1925 LONDON.- A new V&A exhibition will examine Horace Walpole’s extraordinary collection and evoke the magnificent interiors of his house Strawberry Hill, Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture. Following extensive restoration by the Strawberry Hill Trust the house is set to reopen in 2010. The exhibition will bring... [Lire la suite]

V&A director Mark Jones said the project would be productive for both sides of the partnership. Photograph: Murdo Macleod LONDRES (ROYAUME-UNI) [15.01.10] – Le Victoria and Albert Museum va ouvrir un deuxième site dans le nord de l'Ecosse, à Dundee. Le « V&A at Dundee » est prévu pour ouvrir d'ici 5 ans, avec un budget de construction de 47 millions de livres, qui reste encore à finaliser. Le but est d'en faire un centre de recherche en design accueillant des expositions itinérantes. Un concours d'architecture a été... [Lire la suite]

Stained glass panel from the cloister of the Abbey of Mariawald depicting Esau giving up his Birthright. German, 1521. Museum No. C.120-1945 LONDON.- The V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries opened, housing one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period, including the Becket Casket, Gothic altarpieces and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. There will also be an outstanding collection of Renaissance sculpture by Italian masters such as Donatello and Giambologna. Ten galleries, occupying... [Lire la suite]

Blue and red floral printed silk afternoon dress, 1931. Madeleine Vionnet, 1931. Purchased with the support of the Friends of the V&A © V&A Images. LONDON.- The V&A, London; The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; and the Fashion Museum, Bath are delighted to announce that they have jointly acquired nine haute couture gowns designed by French couturier, Madeleine Vionnet for a wealthy British socialite after an export stop was placed on them. This is the first time an export stop has been placed on examples of... [Lire la suite]

The V&A’s autumn exhibition, Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, will be the first to comprehensively explore the world of the maharajas and their extraordinarily rich culture. It will bring together over 250 magnificent objects, many on loan to the UK for the first time from India’s royal collections. The exhibition will include three thrones, a silver gilt howdah, gem-encrusted weapons, court paintings, photographs, a Rolls Royce, Indian turban jewels and jewellery commissioned from Cartier and Van Cleef... [Lire la suite]

The French sense of balance and proportion reached an apex in the 17th century, inspiring some of the greatest masterpieces of European monumental art. The east facade of the Louvre palace conceived under Louis XIV by the king’s physician, Claude Perrault is one example. The design at left dates to 1664. Photo: The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London. This design for the monument to Dorothy, Lady Brownlow, in St Nicholas's Church Sutton is of pen, ink and wash on paper by William Stanton (1639-1705). It... [Lire la suite]