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Victoria and Albert Museum: Art Deco Objects
From the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, this is an online tour of "Art Deco Objects" from the museum's collection. A detail page on each piece includes description, image and audio.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Style Guide: Renaissance
An examination of Renaissance style, as it was practiced in England. See examples of Renaissance architecture, furniture, and designs and learn about the motifs that characterize this style of ornamentation. Also learn about the role...
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Victoria & Albert Museum: Introduction to 20th Century Fashion
Learn about the history of clothing in the 1900's. Includes images, a discussion of prominent designers and the impact of cultural events upon fashion.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Victorian Dress at the V&a
Learn about the fashions worn by the various social classes during the Victorian era. Includes information on popular styles and textiles, along with a collection of images.
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Victorian & Albert Museum: Introduction to 18th Century Fashion
Learn about the trends that came to define men's and women's fashion in the 1700's. Includes images and a discussion of popular fabrics and women's hairstyles.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Chronology of Fashion
A chronology of the styles of clothing worn by men and women in Europe over three centuries (between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries). Serves to illustrate changing ideals regarding personal adornment, beauty, masculinity, and...
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo: Experiment, Experience, Design
A media-rich examination of Leonardo's work that includes a timeline of the artist's life, animations of his drawings that attempt to unlock something of the genius in his thinking, up-close details from his notebooks, thematic looks at...
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Cold War Modern: Design,1945 70
Museum exhibition canvasses the design of the cold war period. The focus of the exhibition is on making the connections between artistic production of the time and the era's prevailing political and social ideas.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Art Deco Buildings in London
From the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, this page is an onlline tour of "Art Deco Buildings in London". This interactive map allows you to open nice images of the historic structures as well as links to additional information.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Gothic Tapestry and Embroidery of England
From the Victoria and Albert Museum of London, this is an examination of the museum's collection of English Gothic tapestries and embroideries, spanning 1400 to 1547.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Design a Wig
In the late 18th century, women's hairstyles went crazy. Create and share your own hair-raising design.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Nicholas Hilliard: Young Man Among Roses
Short essay about one of Hilliard's most famous miniatures (Robert Deveraux, second Earl of Essex?) examines the artist's influences, Tudor symbolism, Elizabeth's relationship with the subject of the portrait, and the romantic ideals of...
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Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood
This is the official website of a unique museum in London that celebrates childhood. Includes a history of childhood and a collection of games, dolls, toys, and more.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: China Design Now
With this resource, students explore China's coastal cities and experience the country's creative landscape. The cities examined are Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing. The resource consists of pictures, information about the exhibition,...
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Dating Old Photographs From Clothes Worn: 1920s
Photographs and fashion illustrations of clothing typically worn in 1920's America and Europe.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: The Alhambra
Information on the the Alhambra, a celebrated example of Moorish (Islamic) architecture.
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Victoria and Albert Museum: A Sketchbook by Constable
Find a selection of drawings by Constable, of figures and scenes, that filled a small sketchbook that the artist kept in 1814.