Recent visit to Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at Fitzwilliam museum. Showing how craftsman worked with different materials such as these; glass, faience, limestone and gold #AncientEgypt #Craftwork #History #FitzwilliamMuseum #Hieroglyphics
#FrankBowling: Seeking the Sublime #Art #Review
#FitzwilliamMuseum, #Cambridge
This illuminating #exhibition traces the British Guyanan’s faltering first steps of #painting with a social conscience to his escape from London to New York and abstraction
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The Egyptians Used an Ancient Version of Wite-Out to Correct Their Mistakes on This Papyrus Scroll 3,300 Years Ago: An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its… @SmithsonianMag #AncientEgypt #Papyrus #History #Archaeology #FitzwilliamMuseum
A wonderful exhibition of Ancient Egyptian craftsmanship at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. From the making of sarcophagi, jewellery to glassmaking, woodwork to weaving, painting & pottery. Definitely worth a visit. (And the building itself is beautiful.)
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#ancientegypt
Fox sitting on lawn outside Fitzwilliam Museum
Fox on grass
This was one outside the #FitzwilliamMuseum last week. Very tame and eating people’s sandwiches! But it looked like it had a poorly leg 😢
Museum caption - “The mosaic is made from small pieces of coloured glass, red jasper, obsidian and quartzite, on a background of pellets of Egyptian blue (a glassy paste). The cockle shells are set into plaster painted with red ochre.”
Mosaic niche
Found at Baiae, near Naples
1st Century CE
Once displayed against a wall in a garden or courtyard. An appropriate location, with the peacock, birds & plants.
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Now #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
#MosaicMonday #Roman
Floor mosaic with perhaps Medusa in the centre of concentric circles with leaf designs.
Entrance hall mosaic
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Opened in 1848, the museum was designed by George Basevi based on the temples of ancient Greece & Rome.
Unfortunately, Basevi died in an accident & so the hall decoration was not completed until 1875, under the architect E M Barry.
#MosaicMonday
Lid of an #Etruscan funerary urn with reclining male figure. He is dressed as a banqueter, wearing a wreath and holding a dish. Museum text - “Most of the sculpture in this case is from the collection of Dr John Disney, a barrister and collector. Disney had a strong connection with the University of Cambridge. He was a student at Peterhouse, and in 185l he established the first professorship of archaeology in England, the Disney Chair. When Disney gave his ancient sculpture collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1850, most of it had already been in England for a hundred years. The collection was started by Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) and his friend Thomas Brand, during their travels in Italy. When they died, their estate, including the ancient sculpture, was left to the Reverend John Disney (1746-1816). His son and heir, Dr John Disney, continued to add to the collection”
Lid of an #Etruscan funerary urn
Made in #Volterra
Tufa
c. 250-100 BCE
Found in Volterra and eventually later part of Dr John Disney collection.
Such private collections form the basis of many of our famous museums.
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Now #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
1st century mosaic niche found at Baiae, near Naples. The niche would have been located in a garden or courtyard. Now part of the collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Roman #FitzwilliamMuseum
Buenos días.
#Snoopy #Woodstock #AIGeneratedImages #ChatGPT / #DallE3 #UK #England #Cambridge #FitzwilliamMuseum
Bronze bust of actor Ross, nude, with her hair swept back and her arms crossed.
Third Portrait of Oriel Ross by Jacob Epstein (1948)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
#JacobEpstein
#OrielRoss #Sculpture
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TONIGHT! Bound together: Leather from Northern Nigeria opens #FitzwilliamMuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
This display stems out of the research from the African Collections Futures by the amazing #DrEvaNamusoke
#Africaresearch #Africacollections
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who can help with the name? #fitzwilliammuseum
A transfer printed design with the three domed halls. Carriages & people in the foreground.
#Dublin International Exhibition pot lid.
White earthenware.
F & R. Pratt & Co, #Staffordshire. c.1853
The exhibition building was located in the grounds of Leinster House. The of three large halls fronted onto Merrion Square.
The #architect was John Benson.
Now #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
A bottle glass window casts a shadow, the walls are solid & smooth, the knots are visible in the ceiling timbers. An amazing etching by Dürer.
500 years apart!
St Jerome in his study. (detail)
#AlbrechtDürer 1514
This morning I posted a modern #HelenWhittaker stained glass window. 2015
I end the day with a Dürer etching five centuries older!!
Just look at those bottle glass windows, shadows & wood grain.
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
Sublime sounds at a rehearsal at the Fitz. Might do NO photos today. We'll have to see. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #cambridge #fitzwilliammuseum #music
New Exhibition Features Contemporary Portraits Honoring Forgotten Black Abolitionists: Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received… @SmithsonianMag #Abolitionists #BlackHistory #ContemporaryArt #FitzwilliamMuseum #SocialJustice
For #ClassicMono and #alphabetchallenge #WeekUforUp
Don't miss the ceiling
O'er museum exhibits
Beautif'lly ornate
Pushing apostrophe contractions to the limits here...
#haiku #photography #mobile #monochrome #sepia #onlybeautifulthings #photooftheday #ArtYear #Cambridge #FitzwilliamMuseum
The kind of #surprise I like when I’m told there are items in the #studio for me to #photograph. I’d be told what object it is, but it still surprise me coz they never look what you expected. In this case, what do you think this is? Clue: it’s a handheld device & can open up! #FitzwilliamMuseum
Dr Marsha Pearce
📣 @britishacademy.bsky.social Global Professorships Awards! Incredibly excited that Dr Marsha Pearce will join @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #FitzwilliamMuseum on project: 'Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists' #GLAM #Caribbean
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
🚨 Two amazing senior curatorial positions now open #FitzwilliamMuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
Senior curator in Mediterranean Antiquities and Senior curator in Historic and Modern Paintings
👇Follow the link below to apply:
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...
#FrancescodeMura (1696-1782), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Count James Joseph O'Mahoney
1748
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#Mura
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPattern
Dome subdivided
Into pale blue radials
Around a white core
I am sure there are technical terms for these elements, and fairly sure BlueSkyers will volunteer them!
#haiku #photography #mobile #mobilephoto #photooftheday #ArtYear #Cambridge #FitzwilliamMuseum
Visited the excellent exhibition @fitzmuseum.bsky.social 🏛 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Resistance, Revolution & Abolition this afternoon 😕
We need to remember slavery hasn't been abolished & exists in our society today 😪
Modern Slavery Helpline 0800 0121 700
#FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge #heritage
Visitors viewing various historical portraits in an art gallery.
Rise Up at #FitzwilliamMuseum tells powerful stories of resistance, revolution and abolition.
Students from Soham Village College helped design a ‘reflection space’ where people can find out more after the exhibition.
Made possible thanks to a donation from Trinity College🎓
🔗 bit.ly/4ib683J
Get the Gossip: Young Adults, Botticelli, and the Fitzwilliam Museum 🎨
Read the Q&A with two young adults as they took part in a participatory research project #Fitzwilliammuseum @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/qa-get-...
#GLAM
Last chance to see this marvellous De Heem at the #FitzwilliamMuseum in Cambridge. Banquet Still Life has always been held in a private collection and this is a rare chance to see this stunning piece (valued at £6m!) firsthand.
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"O Whistle..." contains two mentions of our local antiquary John Disney Junior of The Hyde, #Ingatestone
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#CambridgeUni
