MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ART/ PEOPLE AND POSSESSIONS

This important and beautiful book accompanies the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museums spectacular new Medieval and Renaissan ce galleries. Among the textiles, paintings, sculpture, glass, metalwork, prints, manuscripts, furniture, ceramics and jewelry featu red here are such renowned treasures as the Devonshire tapestries, the Leonardo Notebooks, Donatellos Ascension relief, the reliqua ry casket of St. Thomas Becket, and many more astonishing works.