Download or read book The Fitzwilliam Museum written by Lucilla Burn and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fitzwilliam Museum is not just the principal museum of the University of Cambridge but also one of the leading UK museums outside London. This book traces its story from the Museum’s origins in the 1816 bequest of Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, up to the present day. At the same time it sets the Fitzwilliam’s individual story against the larger context of the growth and development of museums and galleries in the UK and further afield.The text and illustrations draw primarily on the rich and hitherto largely unpublished archives of the Fitzwilliam Museum, including the Syndicate Minutes,the reports of University debates published in the Cambridge University Reporter from 1870 on wards, compilations of earlier nineteenth-century documents,architectural plans and drawings, newspaper reports, letters, diaries, exhibition catalogues, photographs and other miscellaneous documents. With this material a substantial proportion of the narrative can be told through contemporary voices, not least those of the Museum’s thirteen Directors to date, each one a strong and influential character.
Download or read book Murder at the Fitzwilliam written by Jim Eldridge and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson is now retired. Known for his intelligence, investigative skills, and most of all his discretion, he's often consulted when a case must be solved quickly and quietly. So when a body is found in the Egyptian Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Wilson is called in. As he tries to uncover the identity of the dead man and the circumstances surrounding his demise, Wilson must contend with an unhelpful police Inspector, and more alarmingly, Abigail McKenzie, the archaeologist who discovered the body and is determined to protect the Egyptian collection. Can they find a way to work together to solve the mystery?
Download or read book Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge written by Geoffrey Thorndike Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume will interest specialists as well as a wider public concerned with Egyptology."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Macclesfield Psalter written by Stella Panayotova and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having rested unknown for centuries in the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the Macclesfield Psalter is the most important medieval manuscript discovered in living memory and has captured the nation's imagination.
Download or read book Sampled Lives written by Carol Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colour written by Stella Panayotova and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition that celebrates the bicentenary of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with a display of its finest illuminated manuscripts. Of all the medieval and Renaissance arts - from sculptures, ivories, frescoes and stained glass to easel and wall paintings - it is manuscript illuminations, protected inside volumes, that best preserve the glowing colours and precious metals that would have dazzled their original spectators. The focus of this exciting and innovative exhibition is on COLOUR: it integrates scientific and art historical analyses of painting materials and techniques with studies on the manuscripts' historic contexts of production, including the relationships between artists and patrons. Identifications of the pigments' chemical composition and methods of application are considered alongside their aesthetic impact as well as the multiple dimensions and meanings of colour appreciated by medieval and Renaissance viewers. Over 150 manuscripts are displayed in the exhibition dating from the 8th to the 19th century and all are catalogued and fully illustrated here. The manuscripts are grouped in 14 thematic sections each of which is introduced by an essay that includes further relevant illustrations and presents the scientific and art historical analyses in a broader cultural context. The majority of the exhibits are from the Museum's collection and the main focus is on Western European illumination, but examples of Byzantine, Armenian, Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts are also included. In addition there are special loans from other Cambridge, British and European collections. The catalogue entries and introductory essays are written by a team of leading manuscript scholars, scientists and conservators who offer an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach and new insights into the art of illumination."--
Download or read book A Cretan Statuette in the Fitzwilliam Museum written by Alan John Bayard Wace and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1927 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook to the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge written by Fitzwilliam Museum and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book written by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Eton College written by Montague Rhodes James and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum written by Yong-i Yun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including a representative range of ceramics from the fifth to the twentieth century and items in various other materials, the collection of Korean art in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is one of the finest outside of the Far East. Although Korea's ceramics equal China's in quality and technique, they are far less known. Compiled by Yun Yong-i and edited by Regina Krahl, this richly illustrated catalog provides detailed information on each object, as well as background studies on Korean culture and ceramic technology.
Download or read book Madonnas and Miracles written by Maya Corry and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madonnas and Miracles' exposes a hidden world of religious devotion in the Italian Renaissance home. Challenging the idea of the Renaissance as an age of increasing worldliness, it shows how religion remained a powerful force that coloured every aspect of daily life. Across the length and breadth of Italy, houses were filled with decorative objects and works of art with spiritual significance, designed to aid members of the family in their devotional lives. A wide range of religious activities, from routine prayers to extraordinary experiences such as miracles and exorcisms, took place within the home, where they were adapted to key moments in the life-cycle, including birth, marriage, sickness and death. 0This illustrated publication explores a variety of devotional objects and images, from luxury items to everyday household goods. Bringing together jewellery and ceramics, manuscripts and printed books, sculpture and paintings, the book offers a vivid encounter with Renaissance spirituality and domesticity. The result is a new vision of a period in which the material world was charged with sacred power. 0Exhibition: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (Spring 2017).
Download or read book Egyptian Art written by Eleni Vassilika and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book brings together a selection of ancient Egyptian works of art of outstanding quality and interest, ranging from large sculptures to small decorative objects. The introduction and full descriptions explain their significance, style, material, and mode of manufacture within the framework of the life and religious beliefs of the royal and private owners for whom they were made. Readers will find much of interest among the numerous objects, all of which are shown in color and many published here for the first time.
Download or read book British Portrait Miniatures written by Graham Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of portrait miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum gives a compact and comprehensive survey of the development of this art form. It illustrates its progress through the work of almost every major master in the genre, with works of the highest quality. This book provides an introduction to the history of portrait miniatures, a glossary, and a bibliography; ninety-six items from the collection are described, and each item is illustrated in full color, to bring out the subtlety and intimacy of this delicate art form.
Download or read book New Kingdom Ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge written by Fredrik Hagen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum available for the first time. Most of these come from the village of Deir el-Medina near Thebes, and they include new literary texts, administrative notes, religious hymns, and copies of tomb inscriptions.
Download or read book Flower Drawings written by David Scrase and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It concludes with several contemporary examples of flower drawings to show that the tradition continues. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the art-form.
Download or read book Silent Partners written by Jane Munro and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and clothing. Over the course of the 19th century, the mannequin gradually emerged from the studio to become the artist's subject, at first humorously, then in more complicated ways, playing on the unnerving psychological presence of a figure that was realistic, yet unreal--lifelike, yet lifeless. Silent Partners locates the artist's mannequin within the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, dolls, and shop window dummies. Generously illustrated, this book features works by such artists as Poussin, Gainsborough, Degas, Courbet, Cézanne, Kokoschka, Dalí, Man Ray, and others; the astute, perceptive text examines their range of responses to the uncanny and highly suggestive potential of the mannequin. Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum Exhibition Schedule: Musée Bourdelle, Paris (03/15/15-05/15/15) Fitzwilliam Museum (10/14/14-01/15/15)
