Sat 7 October 2017 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight The Best of All Possible Worlds: Quentin Blake and The Folio Society Sir Quentin Blake is the UK’s best loved illustrator. See his original illustrations for four classics – The Golden Ass, Candide, Fifty Fables of La Fontaine and Riddley Walker. |
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11:00AM - 4:00PM |
Join Ella Whittlestone in her unique drawing project for all ages and abilities. |
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2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum. |
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6:30PM - 7:15PM |
Premiere Ian Shaw: I sing of a maiden (revised version with harp) |
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7:30PM - 9:30PM |
Cambridge Philharmonic: Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle Concert and Open Rehearsal |
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7:45PM - 9:45PM |
Romantic Legends |