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Renaissance Watercolours
This display is now closed at V&A South Kensington
This display presents for the first time watercolour during the Renaissance as a unified art form, highlighting its versatility and pivotal role in understanding, interpreting and documenting the natural world.
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About the Renaissance Watercolours display
Find out more about the display

Get closer: Renaissance watercolours
Zoom in and explore these beautiful and intriguing objects in fine detail

The botanical album of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
Explore the 16th century album of exquisite watercolours in high definition

A watercolour painting of a pomegranate by Lucy T Smith
Possibly the most soothing 40 minutes experience you'll have this week

Renaissance watercolours: materials and techniques
Discover the qualities that made watercolour the medium of choice for artists during the Renaissance

Watercolours from the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
One of the grandest pictorial records of the 17th century
Renaissance Watercolours
Background image: Background image: Daffodils and a Red Admiral Butterfly, watercolour, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, about 1575, England. Museum no. AM.3267A-1856. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London