V&A Museum - Medieval & Renaissance Galleries

Time Out“The curators manage to tell complex stories in just a few strides...” Even with such truly sensational woodcarving and stained glass at every turn, this display's most vital trajectory is its succinct portrayal of how objects meant for devotion or function would soon become things of art and beauty in their own right..

this is london“Curatorial whimsy has no place in long-term display...” Things are all very well on the Antiques Roadshow, but why swamp major works of art with them? This is an exhibition of 19th-century greed in acquisition, bulk quantity diluting beauty and significance, crushing perception and understanding...

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”

The Observer“The exhibits offer rare access to the sense of wonder...” Exalting, transcendental. It is an entirely new museum-within-a-museum. If these galleries were a standalone in any other country, it would immediately become one of the world's great museums. Whole institutions have been built around less...

Guardian“Not yet reviewed”

The Independent“We move through a dizzying range of forms and techniques...” Some of the most memorable highlights come in just those works where the late Middle Ages tremble in luxury and elegance on the brink of some kind of breakdown or breakthrough...

Financial Times“Both an aesthetic and an intellectual triumph...” We recognise our own world: art for show in a melting pot of history, as medieval and renaissance Europe are recreated, compellingly and playfully, in a 21st-century mirror...

The Telegraph“The whole project is a triumph...” In this article I’ve raced through galleries that need a lifetime to see properly, so forgive me if I’ve left out whole schools of art, entire mediums, and some of the most famous treasures in a world famous collection...

The Times“This spectacular display will draw you back again and again...” This is a wonderful display that transforms the V&A from an outmoded Victorian maze of glass cases into a modern museum of world-class calibre...