Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
"The Fitzwilliam Museum is a public museum and art gallery with an international reputation, housing the art collection of the University of Cambridge. This new book, published to celebrate the re-opening of the museum following the courtyard development, highlights over 350 treasures, which ra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Scala,
2005.
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| Summary: | "The Fitzwilliam Museum is a public museum and art gallery with an international reputation, housing the art collection of the University of Cambridge. This new book, published to celebrate the re-opening of the museum following the courtyard development, highlights over 350 treasures, which range from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to the arts of the twentieth century." "The Museum's collection of masterpieces includes works by Canaletto, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Stubbs and Titian, as well as one of the world's foremost Rembrandt print collections. Other treasures include Handel's music manuscripts, the famous Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and one of the most significant collections of Korean ceramics outside South East Asia."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 256 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1857593448 (pbk.) |