Showing posts with label V&A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label V&A. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2024

Museum Mondays


Three Wise Men
Carved altarpiece
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
November, 2019

 

Monday, March 18, 2024

Monday, March 11, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Museum Monday


Painted Panel
Part of a Triptych Altarpiece
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
November, 2019

 

Monday, February 19, 2024

Monday, February 12, 2024

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Belated Museum Mondays


Purse in sterling silver inspired by tree bark
Michele Oka Doner
Victoria & Albert Museum
November, 2019

 

Monday, November 28, 2022

Monday, November 21, 2022

Monday, May 16, 2022

Monday, May 09, 2022

Monday, May 02, 2022

Museum Mondays

Photo of a game where you use a magnet to place magnetic filings in the correct hairdo for each Beatle.

Beatles Magnetic Hair Game
Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
London, May, 2014

 

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Belated Museum Mondays

Stone effigy of a man, seen from shoulders up only, head resting on a pillow, hilt of a sword in his hand.

Effigy of Don García de Osorio (detail)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
November, 2019



 

Monday, January 17, 2022

Museum Mondays

Doll; a baby dressed in a white nightgown, laying as if in bed

Doll, baby dressed in a white nightgown
Text reads: "Wax-headed baby doll, about 1900.
Patrick Enrico Pierotti died as a baby. His father,
the English doll-maker Charles Ernest Pierotti, 
made the doll as a portrait of him.
Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood
London, May, 2014

 

Monday, January 10, 2022

Monday, January 03, 2022

Museum Mondays


French Doors with ironwork
1200-1300
A rare survival because iron corrodes and wood rots
Victoria & Albert Museum
November, 2019

 

Monday, April 12, 2021

Museum Mondays


Facade of Sir Paul Pindar's House
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, November, 2019

This facade is all that's left of Sir Paul Pindar's house, one of the great Elizabethan private houses in London's Spitalfields neighborhood. The structure, or part of it, survived well into the 19th century before being demolished, with this bit saved.

 

Monday, April 05, 2021

Museum Mondays


Virgin and Child
Relief in limestone ("Verona marble")
Italian, c. 1160-80
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, November, 2019

 

Monday, March 29, 2021