Exhibitions
Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime
Experience the dynamic paint, vivid colour, and bold vision of contemporary British painter Frank Bowling. Celebrating a career lasting nearly seven decades, our exciting display brings together a lifetime of the artist’s work.
Jan Davidsz de Heem, ‘Still Life with Moor and Parrot’, 1641 © Brussels Municipal Museum
Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem
Tue 3 December 2024 - Sun 13 April 2025
Fitzwilliam Museum
Heaving with foods, textiles and decorative objects, these four enormous and indulgent tablescape scenes are the highlight of Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem. Our fascinating new display explores the phenomenally popular ‘sumptuous still lifes’ known in Dutch as ‘pronkstilleven’, painted in the 1600s at the height of Dutch colonial trade.
Explore the history behind the artworks, the spoils of global trade and the moral messages behind the compositions. And discover the artist’s extraordinary skills and techniques; from exotic fruits to coveted crustaceans, our state-of-the-art scientific equipment and research has brought to light the ingenious tricks used to capture the texture, colours and luminosity of these luxuries so convincingly with paint.
Image: Jan Davidsz de Heem, ‘Still Life with Moor and Parrot’, 1641 © Brussels Municipal Museum
Cost: Free
Timing
In person
10:00am-5:00pm Tuesday-Saturday every week from Tuesday 3 December 2024 until Saturday 21 December 2024
10:00am-5:00pm Friday-Saturday every week from Friday 27 December 2024 until Saturday 28 December 2024
10:00am-5:00pm Tuesday-Saturday every week from Thursday 2 January 2025 until Sunday 13 April 2025
12:00pm-5:00pm Sunday every week from Tuesday 3 December 2024 until Sunday 13 April 2025
All times
| Tue 3 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Wed 4 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Thu 5 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Fri 6 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sat 7 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sun 8 December 2024 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Tue 10 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Wed 11 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Thu 12 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Fri 13 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sat 14 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sun 15 December 2024 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Tue 17 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Wed 18 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Thu 19 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Fri 20 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sat 21 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sun 22 December 2024 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Fri 27 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sat 28 December 2024 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Sun 29 December 2024 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Thu 2 January 2025 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
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| Fri 28 March 2025 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
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| Sun 30 March 2025 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
| Tue 1 April 2025 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
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| Sun 13 April 2025 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |