THE PAINTED WORLD

he Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the VyA as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day, encompassing painted furniture, textiles and ceramics as well as traditional oil on canvas. The his tory of painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-gard e works. Many British paintings, watercolours, miniatures, icons and non-European works relate uneasily to this twin canon of old an d modern...[Read more]