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Article: Art and patronage in late medieval England: to accompany the major exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Janet Backhouse explores the varied roles of patronage in the art of the later Middle Ages.
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- History Today
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- October 1, 2003
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A major exhibition of late medieval art opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this October. Entitled 'Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547', it presents a comprehensive range of treasures, from acknowledged masterpieces of painting, sculpture and goldsmiths' work to the relatively humble but nonetheless fascinating accessories of everyday life. Concentrating on the fifteenth century and the reigns of the first two Tudor kings, it embraces the introduction of printing, the discovery of the New World and the initial stages of the Reformation, now widely regarded as stepping stones to the modern world. The iconoclasm of Protestant reformers in the century after the ...