Romanticism: Girtin, Turner & Constable
Essay on J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Girtin & John Constable.
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Romanticism: romance, sublime, picturesque
Romanticism is a much used and abused term which has persistently eluded concise definition since it was coined in the mid 17th century, but its origins lie in the rebirth …
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Romanticism: the Pre-Raphaelites
The concept of 'Truth to Nature' espoused by the greatest Victorian writer on art, John Ruskin, was founded upon a romantic perception of the natural world and veneration f…
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Romanticism: the exotic
Essay on a series of English editions of the collection of Arabic tales known as The Thousand and One Nights, which fed interest in this exotic civilisation
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A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction (Paperback)
The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the V&A as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages …
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