V&A (1)

I spent the morning in the V&A. I started in the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.

My eye was caught first by two hats, not particularly ornate, presumably those of a commoner, tossed away and somehow preserved, roughly five hundred years later:-

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The Head of a Young Man by Michel Erhart, made out of limewood in Ulm:-

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And the Descent from the Cross by Sansovino, made for Perugino when they were both in Rome:-

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An angel by Riemenschneider:-

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A Donatello Lamentation:-

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Three angels by Giovanni Antonio Amadei:-

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