Royal visitors shouldn't be embarrassed

One of the many highlights of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the greatest museum of applied arts, are its Cast Rooms. Here you can find many plaster casts of famous works. The biggests two are the colossal Trajan's Column, which stood in the middle of ancient Rome, and the entire portal of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

Michelangelo's David is among the sculptures, naked as the artist created him. In 1857, the staff of the V&A Museum had to fabricate a fig leaf. Each time when royalty visited the exhibition, the plaster leaf was detached to the statue. I was curious to see it, as my guide book said it's displayed at the back of David's plinth. Unfortunately it has been "temporarily removed". Might be urgently needed somewhere else.

See what I also came across in the Cast Rooms (below). It looks extremely small and insignificant between the two parts of Trajan's Column (all my friends with Nuremberg connections should know right away what I'm writing about).