Today’s smartphones go a thousand times over the best cameras of the past, so travelers have it easier and easier. When you return from the trip with thousands and thousands of photographs, it is worth considering taking fewer but better photos. Richard l’Anson, the author of the Lonely Planet Image Gallery, gives some of his […]
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While the subject-matter may be ordinary – the preparation of food, eating and drinking, the enjoyment of music or a family game – the painting is rich and jewel-like, with equal attention paid to a discarded clay pipe as to a fine silk drape. The meticulously documented details often allude to a work’s deeper meaning or to moral messages
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In Europe 1600-1815 over 1100 objects from the V&A’s collections of 17th- and 18th-century European art and design are displayed in a suite of seven galleries. The collection comprises some of the most magnificent works held by the V&A, including spectacular examples of textiles and fashion, painting and sculpture, ceramics and glass, furniture and metalwork,
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