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Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

Scientific Analysis of a Tunic from Egypt

By Stuart Frost and Elin Simonsson I posted a blog entry about a conservation work on an eighth century tunic in the V&A’s collections in June 2007. A great deal of work...

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Rebuilding the Renaissance City

Stuart Frost On any project there are significant milestones, key dates by which critical stages on the road to completion have been reached. For the Medieval and Renaissance...

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Rudolph II and Prague: On Location Part Four

By Stuart Frost ‘It is generally agreed amongst the Catholics in Prague that the Emperor has been bewitched and is in league with the devil. I have been shown the chair in which...

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Donatello and Florence: On Location Part Three

By Stuart Frost Last week I was fortunate enough to spend three days in Florence with chief curator Peta Motture working on the second of our three People and Place gallery films....

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Charlemagne and Aachen: On Location Part Two

By Stuart Frost I promised regular updates on progress with the development of six gallery films and so here is the first of several. Location filming for the Charlemagne and...

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On Location Part One

By Stuart Frost Where did the summer go? Is it really September already? Time certainly seems to be flying by. Work is progressing on the project at a rapid rate. My...

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A Medieval (and Renaissance) Marvel!

By Stuart Frost How many of you can identify the object that illustrates this blog entry I wonder? Not many I suspect. Any Daily Mail readers who read page 21 of the edition...

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New York, New York!

By Stuart Frost I spent last weekend visiting friends and family in York. The city’s museums hold some tremendously rare survivals but anyone with an interest in medieval...

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Tintagel Castle and Arthurian Myth

By Stuart Frost The pictures that I’ve reproduced here are of the ruins of Tintagel Castle, the remains of which cling perilously to the north Cornish coastline. Tintagel is...

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Tangled Up in Time

By Stuart Frost There are so many colleagues working on so many different aspects of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries project that it is difficult to know where to start...

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Big Brother Medieval (and Renaissance) Style

By Stuart Frost Even when I’m off-duty I find it hard to avoid getting engaged with something that has a connection to medieval and Renaissance history. A couple of weekends...

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The Listening Gallery

By Stuart Frost I recently had some good news about a collaborative project that I’ve been working on with colleagues at the V&A and the Royal College of Music. In...

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The Da Vinci Code

By Stuart Frost I’ll confess immediately. This blog entry has very little to do with Dan Brown or the Da Vinci Code.  I simply thought that if I mentioned the Da Vinci...

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King Alfred the Great?

By Stuart Frost It is the nature of history that only the names of a comparatively few people are remembered after their deaths. For the medieval period the people we know most...

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Conservation and Research

By Stuart Frost A remarkable amount of work has been going behind the hoardings in the Museum and away from the public gaze elsewhere. In fact there is so much activity taking...

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Anglo-French Relations: Old and New

By Stuart Frost The detail you can see here is a heraldic device that adorns a vast bronze jug, destined for the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. The coat-of-arms is that...

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Easter in Art

By Stuart Frost What does Easter mean to you? What images and memories does it bring to mind? For many people I’m sure it is bound up with long Bank Holiday weekends spent...

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Venus Unveiled

By Stuart Frost The last entry posted here focused on the male nude through two sculptures of David by Donatello and Michelangelo. This week I thought I’d focus on the female...

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Donatello, Michelangelo and David

By Stuart Frost February is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) month so many museums have planned events to coincide with it. This set me thinking about connections...

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Heralding in 2008!

Stuart Frost I apologise for the pun at the head of this page! I also apologise for the lateness of this first posting of 2008. However if we were following the old Florentine...

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A medieval and Renaissance Christmas….

By Stuart Frost Christmas is almost upon us. Everyone working on the project is looking forward to having a well earned break.  Naturally enough Christmas has been a popular...

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Giants of the Renaissance

By Stuart Frost The V&A is the National Musuem of Art & Design but it is also far more than that. We know that our visitors use the Museum’s collections in many...

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Old Friends & New Places

By Stuart Frost The amount of progress that has been made in preparing the gallery spaces for installation of the new displays is incredible. I had a glimpse behind the Gallery 50...

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Beowulf

By Stuart Frost I saw a production of Faustus in Richmond two weeks ago. The play was loosely based on the text of the Tudor playwright Christopher Marlowe. However contemporary...

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In Touch with Our Past

Stuart Frost Over the last week or so I’ve been focussed on writing draft labels for a series of touch objects for the new Medieval and Renaissance displays.  If you’d like...

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Let there be light!

By Stuart Frost The Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project team have been conducting a series of display mock-ups since July of this year. These allow us to test the new...

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Parish Churches and Worm Charming

By Stuart Frost I spent a rather pleasant weekend in Blackawton a little while ago. Blackawton is a small village in Devon, not far from Totnes. I was there helping a friend set...

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Sacred Art

By Stuart Frost We have been working on the interpretation for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries for some time. We are now a stage where we can begin to commission and build...

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Polishing Up the Past

By Stuart Frost I think most visitors would be staggered by the amount of work that is involved in pulling together museum displays. When visitors walk around a successful new...

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The Portico de la Gloria, Santiago de Compostela

By Stuart Frost I have to confess that I am guilty of claiming one particular object of being my favourite, and then next week I declare something else to be the greatest artefact...

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