Archaeologists Found a 4,000-Year-Old Handprint That Was Never Meant to Be Seen

The 4,000-year-old handprint was discovered on the underside of a ‘soul house’—a structure shaped like a building with an ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum: what’s wrong with the chronology of art? This thematic rehang is choppy and underwhelming

One of the Fitzwilliam Museum's newly rehung galleries - PA Photo “Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Luke Syson, describes the new atmosphere inside ...

Reclaiming the past: ‘Journeys with Mai’ at the Fitzwilliam

Halfway through his tour across UK museums, Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Omai (1776) has made the journey to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam ...
Hyperallergic

The Secret Universe of William Blake’s Art

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British countryside can evoke ‘dark nationalist’ feelings in paintings, warns museum

Hampstead Heath by John Constable at the Fitzwilliam Museum, which has warned of the potential to create an 'implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong' - ...
Tehran Times

Fitzwilliam Museum adds Abbas Akbari’s artworks to its collection

The museum contains different works from ancient times to the contemporary period and from different civilizations and countries. An important part of the collection of works of the museum is related ...
Artnet

Fitzwilliam Museum Gets £430,000 Facelift

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, has restored its 1848 portico and freshened up its railings. The £430,000 ($724,171) conservation project was funded by the institution and the University ...
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Museum reimagines masterpieces in the pandemic, complete with face masks

A UK museum has released reimagined versions of some of its most loved masterpieces, with subjects donning face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, eastern ...
The Independent

Graham Pollard: Deputy director of the Fitzwilliam Museum who was an expert on Italian Renaissance medals museum

John Graham Pollard, numismatist, museum curator and civic campaigner: born Gillingham, Kent 25 December 1929; Keeper of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum 1966-88, Deputy Director 1969-88; Fellow, ...
BBC

Ancient Egyptian fingerprints found by Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum

The prints bring researchers "closer to the ancient craftsmen" who worked on the coffins, the museum said Three-thousand-year-old fingerprints have been found on the lid of an Egyptian coffin by ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum shows 'iconic queer art' jewellery

Charles Ricketts presented Katherine Bradley with this miniature of her partner Edith Cooper in 1901 and also created a pendant to house it Late 19th Century jewellery with "an iconic place in the ...