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Events at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Free Second-hand goods Gallery talks for Museums and Galleries month will take place on Wednesdays from 1.15 p.m.

7 May Re-selling Renaissance art: auctions in sixteenth-century Venice, by Mr Jack Hinton, Research Assistant, Department of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints.
14 May 'To furnish the cabinet of a man of taste and letters': recycling Greek pots, by Dr Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities.
21 May Roman copies and interpretations of Egyptian sculpture, by Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Assistant Keeper of Antiquities.
28 May Old stories, new clothes: reinventing the past in Japanese prints, by Mr Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints.

The Annual Stephen Glanville Memorial Lecture, entitled The legacy of Flinders Petrie - the first great rescue archaeologist? will be given by Dr Stephen Quirke, of the Petrie Museum, University College London, on Saturday, 10 May, at 4.30 p.m., in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3. Further details and free tickets are available from Dr Sally-Ann Ashton (e-mail sa337@cam.ac.uk).

An evening piano recital will be given by Matthew Schellhorn on Thursday, 15 May, at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are priced £12 (£10 for Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and concessions) and are available from the Cambridge Arts Box Office, St Edward's Passage (tel. 01223 503333).


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Cambridge University Reporter, 19 March 2003
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