Tra le tante cose che devo fare a lavoro (ci credereste che ho dovuto prenotare 65 biglietti per un musical per un gruppo di studenti spagnoli??), oltre a fare commissioni, rispondere al telefono, etc… devo anche scrivere delle recensioni su dei musei! (ovviamente in inglese) Enjoy!
VICTORIA & ALBERT
One curiosity about indian sculptures is about the position of the hands. You may have heard of Mudra. Mudra is a name that indicate particular position of hands, and the Radiant Buddha has the right hand with the whole palm facing forward to the person in front of him. This means that the person should have no fear. The Radiant Buddha is one of the main attraction of the quite big area dedicated to Asian cultures, from Japan to India.
The museum is an enormous building just in front of the first exit of the subway which comes from the South Kensington station. You can’t miss it. At the first glance instead of alternated yellow and grey bricks like Natural History Museum you see red and grey alternated.
Very fascinating… As the room dedicated to the famous Italian painter Raphael. It contains seven “cartoons”, very big pictures, that represents various episodes from the Holy Bible. The most famous is about the miraculous draught of fishes, when Jesus told Peter to make another draught because this one would be lucky, on the contrary of all the other attempts in that day. When Peter saw the boat full of fishes he converted and started to follow Jesus as the first apostle. From him all popes and the foundation of the church follows.
In the cast courts room there are several copies of famous monuments, the plaster cast of the original David of Michelangelo, very imposing, a copy of the Traian columns of Rome, also sculptures from Bernini, masterpieces of Donatello, and so on…
Definitely, this museum isn’t as famous as well-known museums like British Museum, National Gallery… but anyway it deserves more recognition.
It confirms that South Kensington is a very good area if you are interested in art and museums.
The museum is free as many others in this zone.
More information on the website: http://www.vam.ac.uk
As last, i wish you to enjoy your visit! Bye!
basta scrivere cazzate in inglese!! brrrrr!!