Art in Context: Gallery Talks
Gallery Talks will take place on Wednesdays, between 1.15 p.m. and 1.45 p.m. Admission is free.
12 October | The Macclesfield Psalter in Cambridge, by Stella Panayotova, Keeper, Manuscripts and Printed Books. |
19 October | The beautiful festival of the valley: an ancient Egyptian celebration, by Helen Strudwick, Research Assistant, Antiquities. |
26 October | The splendour of Delft porcelain, by Julia Poole, Keeper, Applied Arts. |
2 November | Giorgio Gandini, The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, by David Scrase, Keeper, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. |
9 November | The Walston Athena, by Lucilla Burn, Keeper, Antiquities. |
16 November | Portraiture of the Tudor monarchs on coins and medals, by Martin Allen, Assistant Keeper, Coins and Medals. |
23 November | William Morris and 'the smallest objects susceptible of beauty', by Duncan Robinson, Director. |
30 November | A president paints: Sir Charles Lock Eastlake's 'Panoramic View near Rome', by Jane Munro, Senior Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. |
The Cambridge Illuminations exhibition talks will take place on Fridays between 1.15 p.m. and 1.45 p.m. Admission is free.
7 October | The making of a manuscript exhibition, by Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper, Manuscripts and Printed Books. |
4 November | The Macclesfield Psalter, by Dr Frederica Law-Turner, Art Historian and Manuscript Expert. |
11 November | The shape of meaning in medieval manuscripts, by Professor James Marrow, of Princeton University and Honorary Keeper of Northern European Manuscripts. |
2 December | English illumination in the first age of Gothic, by Dr Paul Binski, Reader in the History of Medieval Art. |