Museums

Presentation summary

Take a visual and audio tour of the museum’s Eleanor Cross pictures with our Art Curator. Through the pictures and pages linked below, we will tour the different styles, mediums and dates of the Eleanor Cross artworks and consider why artists decided to illustrate the Eleanor Cross. 

The Eleanor Cross in Art

Speaker biography

Elizabeth Socci has been working as the art curator for Northampton Museums and Art Gallery for almost 3 years. During this time she has become well acquainted with the breadth and depth of the museum’s art collection. Having studied Art History at undergraduate level and developing this further with a Masters in Art Museum and Gallery studies, Elizabeth has developed a number of art research interests. One of which is a strong interest in British Landscape painting and drawing particularly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This specific interest has been fostered further through the museum’s strong collection of works that record the Northamptonshire landscape, from picturesque scenery to topographical views. Several of these local landscapes depict the Eleanor Cross and it is these that Elizabeth has been researching and will be discussing today, seeing how they fit within the wider art historical context of landscape art of their time as well as why the Eleanor Cross was a popular topic for the artists in our collection.