Room 22: Sculpture in Britain: Portraits & 'Ideal' Sculpture
This Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery holds sculptures which represent mythological or allegorical subjects. These are sometimes known as 'ideal' sculptures, in contrast …
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Room 23: Sculpture in Britain: Garden Sculpture
The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries hold garden sculpture, during the 18th century garden sculpture became increasingly popular in Britain. Statues, monuments, temples…
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Room 24: Sculpture in Britain: Portraits & Memorial Sculpture
This Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery displays funerary monuments and portrait busts which were the most common ways in which people were commemorated in sculpture. Somet…
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Rooms 26–27: Sculpture 1300–1600
Rooms 26 and 27 feature a selection of religious sculpture from Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and England, dating from around 1300 to 1600. The V&A’s colle…
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Room 47b: South Asian Sculpture
A display of sculptures and devotional objects from the Indian subcontinent
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Room 47e: Chinese Sculpture
Buddhism travelled from India into China during the 1st century AD. It became part of Chinese life and culture alongside other belief systems. The V&A holds exquisite exam…
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Room 111: The Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Gallery
The Gilbert Bayes Gallery is devoted to the making of sculpture. It charts the creative process from the first idea through all the intermediate stages to the finished obje…
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Room 119: Private sculpture gallery
In the early 19th century a new interest in modern sculpture in the classical style developed, centred on the work of the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. This gallery curr…
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