Museums

Friday 27 February – Friday 27 March
10.15am 12.15pm
£6 per lecture, or £25 for the whole series ticket
Includes tea/coffee and biscuits
Booking essential

Before there were public art galleries there were cabinets of curiosities, where connoisseurs demonstrated their taste and learning through the objects they had collected and commissioned. Classical and exotic objects were particularly prized. This series explores ‘curiosities’ created to highlight the taste and career of patrons. It explores the different ways in which artists responded to these trends with their own collections, creations and re-imaginings.

Friday 27 February
Questioning the Canon: Thoughts on the Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton
Speaker: Conny Bailey
Artwork: Allegorical Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton

Friday 6 March
Humanists, Connoisseurs and Collections: unearthing and reimagining in the Italian Renaissance.
Speaker: Miriam Gill
Artwork: Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, A Classical Sacrifice

Friday 13 March
Among my Souvenirs: collecting and Grand Tour whimsy
Speaker: Miriam Gill
Artwork: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Architectural Fantasy with Ruins

Friday 20 March
Art and Archaeology: record or re-imagining
Speaker: Miriam Gill
Artwork: Peter Berrisford, Mills at Pompei

Friday 27 March
The persistent object: studio ephemera in art
Speaker: Conny Bailey
Artwork: Juriaen van Streeck, Still Life with Fruit and Blue and White China

Artworks and speaker details are correct at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.

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Tickets are also available to purchase direct from the museum either in person or by calling 01604 526322 Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm and Sundays 12-5pm