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This article is about the academic discipline of art history. For an overview of the history of art worldwide, see History of art. For other uses, see Art history (disambiguation). Venus de Milo, at the Louvre . Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts; that is genre, design, format, and style. [1] The study includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects. [2] As a term, art history (its product being history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to works of art and architecture. Aspects of the discipline overlap. As the art historian Ernst Gombrich once observed, "the field of art history [is] much like Caesar's Gaul, divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians". [3] As a discipline, art hist

Victoria and Albert Museum Entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum Location within Central London Established 1852 ; 166 years ago  ( 1852 ) Location Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea London, SW7 United Kingdom Coordinates 51°29′47″N 00°10′19″W  /  51.49639°N 0.17194°W  / 51.49639; -0.17194 Coordinates: 51°29′47″N 00°10′19″W  /  51.49639°N 0.17194°W  / 51.49639; -0.17194 Collection size 2,278,183 items in 145 galleries Visitors 3,789,748 (2017) [1] Ranked 5th nationally (2017) [1] Director Tristram Hunt [2] Public transit access South Kensington Website vam.ac.uk In 2000, an 11-metre high, blown glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly was installed as a focal point in the rotunda at the V&A's main entrance. The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A ) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria