Originating in China in around the 9th century, card games arrived in Europe in the early 14th century. They were initially the preserve of the rich because each card was hand-painted and therefore ...
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Today it's one of the most common wardrobe items for both men and women, so it's perhaps surprising that the sweater has only been worn as fashion since the 1920s. From then on, the sweater has taken ...
Symposium hosted in collaboration with the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation in celebration of the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography ...
The launch of Christian Dior's New Look in 1947 marked the beginning of a momentous decade in fashion history, one that Dior himself called the 'golden age'. Celebrating the end of war and the birth ...
Gombrich observed that ‘every picture owes more to other pictures painted before than it owes to nature’. Designers and artists have often looked to the past for... You may have noticed some of the ...
This is a glimpse into the design process behind Secret Seekers, the V&A’s new game for families, starting with a three day onsite ‘Creative Sprint’ at the V&A and... The history of the V&A and its ...
Young V&A wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 ...
Try your hand at crafting your own Japanese style 'boro' bag, inspired by the tradition of recycling and reworking pre-existing textiles. One example of a boro garment in our collection is a ...
Regarded internationally as a masterpiece of neoclassical European sculpture, The Three Graces was carved in Rome by Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822) between 1814 and 1817 for an English collector. This ...
The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and ...