V&A – Mediaeval and Renaissance Galleries
The V&A opened ten new galleries today, and I went along to see them. Even by V&A standards, they’re completely full of Shiny Things. I don’t think I can do descriptive justice to them, so I’ll leave you with some of the pictures I twittered from there. (On Twitter as @Eithin, please do follow!)
A Byzantine dish with an image of a hawk, quite common-grade.
The Symmachi panel, showing a Roman priestess making an offering at an altar.
Richard the Lionheart, from Matthew Paris’s History of England.
Skull and crossbones detail from a funerary carpet (I’d never even heard of funerary carpets before).
A printed playing card showing the Nine of Hares.
Tags: V and A
Hooray! Those are beautiful things.
I'm looking forward to seeing all of the photos you took, but I'm looking forward even more to going there with you myself.