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Study Room resource: Designing pattern
The Designing Pattern resource box contains a selection of drawings which range in date from the 1830s to the 1940s. They show the interior and exterior decoration of Classical and Egyptian Revival buildings, Indian monuments and plans for modern buildings.
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Study Room resource: The role and status of women 1900-39
Prints and drawings that are not on display in the galleries can be seen in the Prints & Drawings Study Room. To make it easier for teachers and lecturers to access the most popular material with groups, we have developed themed study room resources, such as this one on the changing roles and status of women, which contain original prints and drawings.
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Study Room resource: Constable
These Study Room Resources contain samples of John Constable's sketches and paintings. Ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists, Constable was a major influence on Romantics such as Delacroix, on the painters of the Barbizon School, and ultimately on the Impressionists.
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Teachers' resource: Explore pattern through the V&A and RIBA Architecture collections
This resource provides an innovative approach to teaching pattern and design.
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Teachers' resource: Constable
This resource introduces teachers to the V&A's collection of works by John Constable, providing a unique opportunity to look at the artistic process from sketch through to finished work.
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Teachers' resource: Explore design processes through the V&A and RIBA Architecture collections
This resource explains the design processes used in architecture and shows how they can inspire and facilitate other design projects. It draws on the V&A collections and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) archive of architectural drawings, manuscripts and models.
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Teachers' resource: Exploring Image & Identity in the galleries
This resource includes teachers' notes and five museum activity sheets for students. The teachers' notes are designed as background information on all the objects that are included in five museum trails for students. The objects have been chosen for their links with image, identity, style and symbolism.
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Teachers' resource: Explore skylines through the V&A and RIBA Architecture collections
50% of the world's population currently live in cities; urban design and architecture impact on both the look of cities and also the quality of life within cities. This resource focuses on city skylines and explores how individual buildings combine to create an important aspect of a city's visual identity: its skyline.
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Teachers' resource: Exploring calligraphy through the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art
A resource to explore calligraphy through the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art
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Teachers' resource: Exploring plant-based design through the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art
This resource provides an introduction to a very popular and important element of Islamic art: plant-based design motifs.
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Teachers' resource: Plant motifs
This resource is intended for secondary Art & Design and Design & Technology teachers. It contains information about plant motifs in textiles from Tudor England, Mughal India and Qing China.
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Study Room resource: architecture & exploring skylines
This resource contains a selection of architects' drawings from the V&A's and RIBA's Architecture collections that explore iconic buildings and skylines produced in the late 1600s to 1980s. They demonstrate a range of approaches to recording, depicting and imagining cityscapes using different drawing techniques.
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Study Room resource: Exploring design processes
This resource contains a selection of architects' drawings from the V&A's and RIBA's Architecture collections. They have been made by architects as part of their design process. They represent all the different types of drawings architects use to research, develop, design, record and present an idea.
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Study Room resource: Architects’ drawings and ideas
This resources contains a selection of some of the different types of drawings architects produce at different stages of the design process in order to develop and communicate their ideas. Produced in the 1770s to the late 1990s they also demonstrate how architects’ approaches to drawing and techniques have evolved over time.
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Teachers' resource: 50 ways to use museum postcards
Postcards are a cheap and widely available resource. A postcard collection can become an invaluable tool for a teacher because the same cards can be used in endless different ways. The teaching ideas here are aimed at catching students' interest before, during or after a museum visit, but most can also be adapted to form part of normal classroom teaching for any age group or ability.
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