Tag: Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art: Duke Alessandro de’ Medici Victoria and Albert Museum London, England, United Kingdom Portrait of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, after Jacopo da Pontormo, Florence, Italy, about 1550. Museum no. CAI.171. Ionides Bequest Both of the objects highlighted here feature Alessandro de’ Medici (1511-37), the first Duke of Florence. It is…

  • St Martin de Porres Victoria and Albert Museum: The world’s greatest museum of art and design London, United Kingdom 2014-11-03 William Newton, Assistant Curator Today on Sanctus Ignotum we have a case study in race relations, and our first South American saint. Born in Lima, Peru in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish knight…