Collectors shunned many 18th- and 19th-century works

An explanation, an adoration and a lament

Shopping for France?

The Tate has pulled out all stops for this exhaustive show

With a very glamorous display, this is the first serious look at Netherlandish rococo architecture and decorative arts

A sample of the collector's princely taste

“Un paese incantato" comes to London

The expansive exhibition is on now at Palazzo Zabarella

Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (eds), Sir John Vanburgh and landscape architecture: art and design in baroque England, 1690-1730

The couturier’s change to a minimalist lifestyle moved him to dispense with all his eighteenth-century furniture, his paintings, and decorative arts

Identifying the common circumstances behind the 18th-century ceramics industry

An exhibition devoted to the ultimate Enlightenment man who built the collections of the world’s first modern museum

A major loan show from Dresden’s Picture Gallery concentrates on paintings rather than decorative arts

The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail

Three books demonstrate the revival of interest in portrait miniatures and the leading role of the Victoria and Albert Museum in this field

A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware

The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton

The new exhibition displays over 250 works in a journey around the art inspired by the eighteenth-century infatuation with Italy and antiquity

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.