The Renaissance exhibition opened in London

Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Victoria and Albert Museum) in the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance new building was formally opened on 2 May. Cost of 31.7 million pounds, took seven years to build 10 new galleries from the museum occupies the entire east wing, as we show an extravagant and bright world.
Prior to the Victoria and Albert Museum has made a survey among the visitors: "Middle Ages" What does it mean for you? The answer is depressing: pestilence, war, religion, dark, muddy there are potatoes. Fortunately, this exhibition of more than 18,000 exhibits enough to break the people for this "dark period" of prejudice.
New Museum of Medieval and Renaissance galleries each have a specific theme. For example, in a religious art gallery, the light passes through translucent agate windows, symbolizing the spirit of enlightenment of the Middle Ages, the impact of the Holy See. In the central hall, the sun pouring down through the glass roof, surrounded by all kinds of fountain sculpture shine, most of them from the nobility and the merchants of the garden. Gallery next door is the magnificent, dazzling: enamel, gold, jewelry, tapestries, stained glass and ceramics form a colorful world; the Holy See's clothing is lavish, they are either to dark red velvet, gold, made of silk, or embroidered a complex pattern, so that you can not see what the original material. One of costumes by Italian Sir Thomas (Sir Thomas Erpingham) pastor of the church for its custom-made in Norfolk, the former due to be Shakespeare's lines, "Bald Knight" (white-headed knight) of the Archetype and go down in history.
Another gallery is to show us the luxury life of the Middle Ages fu JIA. These valuable furniture and accessories, or custom made, or from the Far East, including a pair of gold and silver jewelry decorated with Chinese Lima stirrups. According to Davis, director of Green (Glyn Davies) introduced the equivalent of today the status of their hand clothing and luxury sports car. In addition, the medieval culture of the rich tend to have a unique quality: a gigantic embroidered bedspread full of Tristan und Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) the legend, it is probably not love people's beds, because the love story has a tragic ending. The other is a painting which looks fairly warm: A couple very comfortably curled up in bed, lying on a sleeping between two people pet dog.