Paintings
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Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli
Discover how Botticelli's gazing lady ended up at the V&A
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Conservation of Pentecost by Sandro Botticelli
The challenges of preparing a 500 year old fragile masterpiece to go on display
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Preparing a Bollywood poster for stretching: ASMR
Step inside the Painting Conservation Studio to see this enormous hand-painted poster be prepared for display
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Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter
Simple bold forms and a rhythmic quality
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Framing Botticelli
V&A Senior Conservator Zoe Allen explores a range of beautifully carved and gilded frames from the exhibition Botticelli Reimagined
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The ‘Dan Brown effect’: Venus-mania from the Olympians to the Expressionists
Having worked for so long on Botticelli Reimagined, could Mark Evans be experiencing Venusian fever?
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Botticelli’s influence
Terry Gilliam, ORLAN, Tomoko and David La Chapelle discuss the influence that Botticelli has had on their work
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A walk through Botticelli’s Florence
Mark Evans, curator of Botticelli Reimagined, explores where the artist was born, lived and died
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Botticelli and pulp fiction
Mark Evans, Curator of Botticelli Reimagined discusses the impact of The Birth of Venus on popular culture
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The conservation of Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jacob van Walscapelle (1667)
Find out how our conservation team have transformed this important and beautiful oil painting through a major treatment programme
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The South Court and Leighton Frescos
Tucked away in the V&A are two surviving masterpieces of Victorian mural painting
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An unusual bloom in the Forest of Sherwood
When eagle-eyed conservator, Nicola Costaras, noticed that a large oil painting depicting Sherwood Forest after rainfall was covered in 'frost', a series of investigations and conservation work was kick-started.
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Francis Williams – a portrait of a writer
Explore the portrait of scholar and writer Francis Williams
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Conserving an 18th-century portrait and waistcoat
Follow the conservation of two uniquely connected objects – a rare double acquisition for the museum
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The puzzle of portraits: Francis Williams and Vanley Burke
Explore two important portraits separated by three centuries
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Marie Antoinette conservation: revealing the controversial queen's portrait
See the work close-up
Collection highlights
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The Temptation in the Garden of Eden, oil painting, by Jan Brueghel the elder, about 1600, Antwerp, BelgiumV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Disappointed Love, oil painting, by Francis Danby, 1821, EnglandV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Altarpiece of St George, by Master of the Centenar, first quarter of the 15th century, Valencia, SpainV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Virgin and Child, oil painting, by Carlo Crivelli, about 1480, ItalyV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Signboard for the Omega Workshops, painting, by Duncan Grant for Omega Workshops, 1913, EnglandV&A East StorehouseNot on display -
Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinell, painting, painted by Sandro Botticelli, 1470 – 80, Florence, ItalyV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Self-Portrait as a Young Man, oil painting, by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto, about 1548, Venice, ItalyV&A South KensingtonNot on display -
Vanitas Still Life, oil painting, by N.L. Peschier, 1659, NetherlandsV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, oil painting, by Francois Boucher, 1758, Paris, FranceV&A South KensingtonOn display -
The Painter's Two Daughters, oil painting, by Thomas Gainsborough, about 1758V&A South KensingtonOn display -
A Sleeping Nymph Watched by a Shepherd, oil painting, by Angelica Kauffman, about 1780, London, EnglandV&A South KensingtonOn display -
Portrait of Melissa Thompson, painting, by Kehinde Wiley, 2020V&A South KensingtonNot on display -
Salisbury Cathedral from The Bishop`s Ground, oil painting, by John Constable, 1823, EnglandOn loan -
Venice from the Giudecca, oil painting, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840V&A South KensingtonOn display -
St Cecilia and the Angels, oil painting, by Paul Delaroche, 1836, Paris, FranceV&A South KensingtonOn display -
The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera Robert Le Diable, oil painting, Edgar Degas, 1876, France. Museum no. CAI.19 -
The Day Dream, oil painting, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880, EnglandV&A South KensingtonOn display