Sir Paul Ruddock, chairman of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and a passionate collector of medieval art, talks to Apollo about the onus on museums to celebrate our often overlooked medieval heritage
During excavations at Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli the archaeologist Gavin Hamilton unearthed a classical statue of Hermes. Hamilton’s conservation of the sculpture transformed its identity to create an 18th-century image of an Olympic victor inspired by the ideals of ancient Greece
