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Fitzwilliam Museum: Gallery Talks

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.