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Article: Report from Europe.
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- The Magazine Antiques
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- November 1, 2003
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Gothic art at the Victoria and Albert Museum
This winter's major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is called Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547, which spans work produced from the reign of Henry IV to that of Henry VIII. According to Paul Williamson, the keeper of sculpture, metal-work, ceramics, and glass at the museum, it is the "last piece of the medieval English jigsaw begun in the 1980s with two earlier exhibitions, at the Hayward Gallery and the Royal Academy."
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The exhibition, which is on view until January 18, 2004, includes some three hundred objects from the Victoria and Albert and on loan from ...