Art History Lecture Series- A Cabinet of Curiosities - Single Tickets

This series explores the curiosities created to highlight the taste and career of patrons and how artists responded to the trend.

Art History Lecture Series

A Cabinet of Curiosities

Friday 27 February – Friday 27 March

10.15am 12.15pm

£6 per lecture

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.

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