Makers and Markets at V&A Museum

A special exhibition of Renaissance decorative objects from London's Victoria and Albert Museum is on view through early 2009.

London's Victoria and Albert Museum is currently designing a new set of galleries for its medieval and Renaissance art collection, hence the reason for the traveling exhibition Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The V&A itself has on view Medieval and Renaissance Highlights: Makers and Markets from March 26, 2007 to April 27, 2009.

Decorative objects made for wealthy princes, popes and merchants of 16th-century Europe as well as the diverse markets of the Renaissance are on display. These include expensive Spanish lustreware ceramics, Limoges enamels, Venetian metalwork and modest German stoneware vessels. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1476-1564), Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) and Giambologna (ca. 1529-1608) are represented in this presentation.