by Baronessa Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia
The British Museum’s first Viking exhibition in thirty years opened last week and after viewing it, I believe they have more than made up for the absence.
Rather than focusing exclusively on finds from the original lands of the Vikings, the exhibition explores the culture and technology that spanned severa...
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textiles
Court & Craft Considered
by Baronessa Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia
Last Thursday, TRH Nasr ibn Isa & Eleanor Isabeau d'Autun, HE Robert of Canterbury and myself sojourned to the Courtauld Gallery for 'Court and Craft', a small but intense exhibition based around one particular artefact - a small, early C.14th bag made of brass, inlaid with gold and silver, and finely engraved wit...
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