Produced alongside the V&A’s landmark 2004 exhibition, Encounters explores both the Western fascination for the exotic materials of Asia as well as the interest in European technologies in India, China, and Japan.
View Details >>At the time of his death in 1904, George Frederic Watts was the most celebrated artist in Britain. Produced alongside centenary exhibitions at Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this film explores the artist’s works and remarkable life.
View Details >>George Romney (1734-1802) was a key figure in British art in the late eighteenth century. A contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was a fashionable, prolific and at times dazzling portrait painter.
View Details >>Gothic art from late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance is revealed in this film in all of its splendour and variety.
View Details >>The extraordinary richness of sculpture from the twelfth to the sixteenth century is revealed in this unique film. Historian Phillip Lindley introduces a selection of surprising and startlingly beautiful artworks from churches and cathedrals in England and Wales.
View Details >>An Illuminations production in association with the V&A. London’s V&A Museum has one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from the Middle East.
View Details >>Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time, including Elizabeth I.
View Details >>Since 1903 the National Art Collections Fund has helped purchase more than 500,000 works of art for British museums and galleries. Ten of the greatest artworks are celebrated by curators and guests in this film.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
