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... arts . In painting and in sculpture , abstract schools have made themselves felt , but Realism generally prevails ... Decorative Arts ( 1885 ) , the last housing one of the world's largest glass collections . The media of mass ...
... arts . In painting and in sculpture , abstract schools have made themselves felt , but Realism generally prevails ... Decorative Arts ( 1885 ) , the last housing one of the world's largest glass collections . The media of mass ...
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... decorative arts collection of objects dis- played at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and from the Government School of Design . Re- named the Museum of Ornamental Art in 1851 , it became the Victoria and Albert in 1899 , when Queen ...
... decorative arts collection of objects dis- played at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and from the Government School of Design . Re- named the Museum of Ornamental Art in 1851 , it became the Victoria and Albert in 1899 , when Queen ...
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... decorative arts , but the ornamentation of these pieces , most notably a collection of jewelled crowns and crosses known as the treasure of Guarra- zar ( Museo Arqueológico Nacional , Madrid , and Musée de Cluny , Paris ) owes nothing ...
... decorative arts , but the ornamentation of these pieces , most notably a collection of jewelled crowns and crosses known as the treasure of Guarra- zar ( Museo Arqueológico Nacional , Madrid , and Musée de Cluny , Paris ) owes nothing ...
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