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Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

The Local Past – Barcelona

One of the things that the curators tried to incorporate into the V&A’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries was the idea that the past survives, often in evocative...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

What exactly do you do?

If I had a pound for every time I’ve been asked this, I’d be a wealthy man. The usual thing is that I meet someone at a social event, the talk turns to work...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

Audio and Technology in the Galleries

I remember that when I started working in museums in the late 1990s, computer terminals and audio points were just starting to become common sights in gallery displays. Often,...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

Italian Art in Britain: a love story

By Glyn Davies Anyone who’s visited the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries can’t fail to have noticed their strongly Italian flavour. Italian art and craft is one of...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

Changing Manuscript Displays

By Glyn Davies An exciting element of museum displays is that they never stand still – in a very real sense, no gallery project is ever ‘complete’. The Medieval...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

The Role of the Catalogue

You may be wondering why this post is accompanied by a photo of a party. Where is the art, you say? What does this have to do with the Medieval and Renaissance periods? Have...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

Vikings and Bishops

One of the great things (or perhaps one of the curses) of working in the history of art is that holidays always have a work edge. If you are travelling in Europe, you are...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

What Makes a Renaissance Ball Swing?

By Glyn Davies Although it’s now a while since the event happened, I couldn’t resist posting a blog entry on the Renaissance Ball that the V&A hosted in the new...

Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future

New Year, New Author

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that Stuart Frost, its regular author since 2006, has not been adding many posts recently. This is because he is now working at the...