Religious processions 1300–1500
Processions played an important role in the medieval religious year, particularly on saints' festivals and during t…
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Scenes of The Passion: prints by Dürer and Wiszniewski
Albrecht Dürer published his Large Passion series in 1511. These twelve woodcuts are a vivid and animated rendering…
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Stéphane Rolland
Parisian couturier Stéphane Rolland is renowned for his modern and original interpretation of couture and his passion for architecture, sculpture and photography is evident throughout his collections.
Memory Maps: 'The Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'' by Iain Sinclair
Early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1837, Clare was led away from his wife and children, by two stern-looking men, who placed him in a small carriage and drove rapidly away southward. Late the same day, the poet found himself an inmate of Dr. Allen's private lunatic asylum, at Fair Mead House, High Beech, in the centre of Epping Forest.
Study rooms
The V&A has a number of study rooms where additional material from the collections can be viewed.
Sculpture techniques: relief carving
Relief carving means that the sculpted object is not fully detached from its background panel. While a free-standing piece of sculpture may be limited to one or two figures, relief carving allows many more figures and therefore larger scenes to be depicted.
Memory Maps: 'Constable's Other Country' by Jules Pretty
John Constable lived at Dedham in the valley’s lower reaches, and it is to Flatford Mill and Willy Lott’s cottage that many visitors are attracted. Come a few kilometres upstream, though, and you find another country where some of Constable’s relatives and descendents lived, and through which his father’s barges passed daily in the early 19th century.
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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