The V&A's Medieval Galleries

When I last went to the Medieval Galleries at the V&A they were very new, and my second visit today revealed a lot of different stuff. I was particularly struck by this wonderfully inventive way of dislaying religious tat:



OK, this is a completely fictitious set-up - no chasubles would appear in a procession, nor would all these objects find themselves together at the same time or in this order - but it's a marvellous way of animating the artefacts while not distracting in any way from their charisma - quite the opposite, in fact. Plus the boost this single display must have given to the plate-glass industry!