Alexander McQueen

National Art Library Dyce collection

The Revd Alexander Dyce (1798–1869) bequeathed over 14,000 books to the South Kensington Museum (renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1899), along with pictures, prints, drawings and other objets d'art.

The Church and the Baroque

The patronage of the Roman Catholic Church was fundamental to the Baroque style. Promoted by generations of popes, cardinals, priests, missionaries, worshippers and lay-patrons, the style spread to the four corners of the globe.

The Constantine Ionides collection

Constantine Alexander Ionides bequeathed his art collection to the V&A in 1901. It now comprises 1158 pictures, drawing, and prints. The collection provides a unique insight into progressive taste in Victorian Britain, and is on display in Room 81 at the V&A South Kensington.

British watercolours 1750-1900: depicting the elements

According to the drawing master, Alexander Cozens, landscape could be codified into three categories: 'Composition', 'Objects' and 'Circumstance'. The last included the seasons, times of day, such as the setting sun, and accidents such as fog, rain or 'the intermixture of the sky, or clouds with the landscape'.

Alexander McQueen Fashion in Motion