DMB
01 Apr 2009, 05:34 PM
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5961492.ece
At long last the BM has brought a lot of this stuff out hiding and is displaying it properly. I intend to go an see it next time I'm in London.
Now the collection, which includes the famous Royal Gold Cup, the beautiful Dunstable Swan Jewel and many other unique works, is being redisplayed in a renovated first-floor gallery (formerly used for storage). It has been given the space, the context and the focus to show a degree of sophistication that may surprise many.
The treasures range from glittering jewels to ecclesiastical vessels, walrus-tusk reliquaries, scientific instruments and some of the earliest printed images. In their new setting they demonstrate that the advances of the medieval era, covering the period from 1050 to 1500, were just as innovative, artistically and intellectually, as the more widely known flowering of the Renaissance.
At long last the BM has brought a lot of this stuff out hiding and is displaying it properly. I intend to go an see it next time I'm in London.
Now the collection, which includes the famous Royal Gold Cup, the beautiful Dunstable Swan Jewel and many other unique works, is being redisplayed in a renovated first-floor gallery (formerly used for storage). It has been given the space, the context and the focus to show a degree of sophistication that may surprise many.
The treasures range from glittering jewels to ecclesiastical vessels, walrus-tusk reliquaries, scientific instruments and some of the earliest printed images. In their new setting they demonstrate that the advances of the medieval era, covering the period from 1050 to 1500, were just as innovative, artistically and intellectually, as the more widely known flowering of the Renaissance.