Fitzwilliam Museum 356007 224679360 2008-07-09T22:58:08Z Richie 81214 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 224225597 by [[Special:Contributions/202.180.77.4|202.180.77.4]] ([[User talk:202.180.77.4|talk]]) [[Image:FitzwilliamMuseum.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum, facing Trumpington Sreet.]] The '''Fitzwilliam Museum''' is the art and antiquities museum of the [[University of Cambridge]] and is located on Trumpington Street, [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART37682.html|title=24 hour museum guide to Fitzwilliam|accessdate=2008-07-07}}</ref> The museum was founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library and art collection of the [[Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam|7th Viscount FitzWilliam]]. The bequest also included £100,000 "to cause to be erected a good substantial museum repository". The collection was initially placed in the old [[Perse Grammar School]] in Free School Lane. It was moved in 1842 to the Old Schools (at that time the [[University Library]]). The "Founder's Building" itself was designed by [[George Basevi]], completed by [[Charles Robert Cockerell|C. R. Cockerell]] and opened in [[1848]]; the entrance hall is by [[Edward Middleton Barry]] and was completed in [[1875]]. The first stone of the new building was laid by [[Gilbert Ainslie]] in 1837. The Egyptian Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum re-opened in 2006 after a two-year, £1.5 million programme of refurbishment, conservation and research.[[Image:Saint Geminianus.jpg|thumb|right|Saint Geminianus from pentaptych by [[Simone Martini]] (c.1284-1344).]] == Collection == The museum has five departments: Antiquities; Applied Arts; Coins and Medals; Manuscripts and Printed Books; and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art; [[Image:Brown last of england.jpg|thumb|left|The Last of England by [[Ford Madox Brown]].]]applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers; coins and medals; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books; paintings, including masterpieces by [[Simone Martini]], [[Domenico Veneziano]], [[Titian]], [[Paolo Veronese|Veronese]], [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], [[Anthony Van Dyck|Van Dyck]], [[Frans Hals]], [[Canaletto]], [[William Hogarth|Hogarth]], [[Thomas Gainsborough|Gainsborough]], [[John Constable|Constable]], [[Monet]], [[Degas]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Cézanne]] and [[Picasso]] and a fine collection of 20th century art; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints. Many items in the museum are on loan from colleges of the [[University of Cambridge|University]], for example an important group of impressionist paintings owned by [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College]], which includes [[Cézanne]]'s 'The Abduction' and a study for '[[Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]' by [[Seurat]]. The Museum's collection of [[Pre-Raphaelite]] paintings includes a version of [[Ford Madox Brown]]'s ''[[The Last of England (painting)|The Last of England]]'', voted 8th greatest painting in Britain in 2005's [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]] poll, the [[Greatest Painting in Britain Vote]]. There is also the largest collection of 16th century [[Queen Elizabeth I of England|Elizabethan]] [[virginal]] manuscript music written by some of the most notable composers of the time. Composers such as [[William Byrd]], [[John Bull (composer)|Doctor John Bull]], [[Orlando Gibbons]] and [[Thomas Tallis]]. ==Collection Highlights== ===Paintings=== ''Anglo-American'' :*[[Benjamin West|West, Benjamin]] - 2 paintings; ''Dutch School'' :*[[Aelbert Cuyp|Cuyp, Aelbert]] - 1 painting; :*[[Gerrit Dou|Dou, Gerrit]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Frans Hals|Hals, Frans]] - 1 painting; :*[[Meyndert Hobbema|Hobbema, Meyndert]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Adriaen van Ostade|Ostade, Adriaen van]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Rembrandt|Rembrandt van Rijn]] - 1 painting; :*[[Salomon van Ruysdael|Ruysdael, Salomon van]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jan Steen|Steen, Jan]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Adriaen van de Velde|Velde, Adriaen van de]] - 1 painting; :*[[Willem van de Velde the Younger|Velde, Willem van de...the Younger]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jan Weenix|Weenix, Jan]] - 1 painting; :*[[Philip Wouwerman|Wouwerman, Philip]] - 2 paintings; ''English School'' :*[[William Beechey|Beechey, William]] - 1 painting; :*[[John Constable|Constable, John]] - 12 paintings; :*[[Thomas Gainsborough|Gainsborough, Thomas]] - 8 paintings; :*[[William Hogarth|Hogarth, William]] - 9 paintings; :*[[John Hoppner|Hoppner, John]] - 1 painting; :*[[Sir Godfrey Kneller|Kneller, Sir Godfrey]] - 15 paintings; :*[[Edwin Henry Landseer|Landseer, Sir Edwin]] - 1 painting; :*[[Thomas Lawrence (painter)|Lawrence, Thomas]] - 1 painting; :*[[Peter Lely|Lely, Peter]] - 1 painting; :*[[Joshua Reynolds|Reynolds, Joshua]] - 4 paintings; :*[[George Stubbs|Stubbs, George]] - 3 paintings; ''Flemish School'' :*[[Jan Brueghel the Elder|Bruegel, Jan]] - 5 paintings; :*[[Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Bruegel, Pieter]] - 1 painting; :*[[Francken|Frans Francken the Younger]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jan Mabuse|Gossaert, Jan]] - 1 painting; :*[[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens, Peter Paul]] - 14 paintings; :*[[David Teniers the Younger|Teniers, David]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Anthony van Dyck|Van Dyck, Anthony]] - 5 paintings; ''French School'' :*[[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix, Eugène]] - 4 paintings; :*[[François Boucher|Boucher, François]] - 1 paintings; :*[[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot|Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Edgar Degas|Degas, Edgar]] - 7 paintings; :*[[Gaspard Dughet|Dughet, Gaspard]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin, Eugène Henri Paul]] - 1 painting; :*[[Claude Lorrain|Gellée, Claude]] - 1 painting; :*[[Vincent Van Gogh|Gogh, Vincent Van]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jean-Baptiste Greuze|Greuze, Jean-Baptiste]] - 1 paintings; :*[[Jean-Étienne Liotard|Liotard, Jean-Étienne]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Claude Monet|Monet, Claude]] - 4 paintings; :*[[Camille Pissarro|Pissarro, Camille]] - 6 paintings; :*[[Nicolas Poussin|Poussin, Nicolas]] - 1 paintings; :*[[Pierre Auguste Renoir|Renoir, Pierre Auguste]] - 11 paintings; :*[[Théodore Rousseau|Rousseau , Théodore]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Georges-Pierre Seurat|Seurat, Georges-Pierre]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jean-François de Troy|Troy, Jean-François de]] - 1 paintings; ''German School'' :*[[Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein, Hans]] - 2 paintings; ''Italian School'' :*[[Alessandro Allori|Allori, Alessandro]] - 1 painting; :*[[Jacopo Bassano|Bassano, Jacopo]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Canaletto]], (Giovanni Antonio Canal) - 6 paintings; :*Carracci, [[Annibale Carracci|Annibale]] and [[Ludovico Carracci|Ludovico]] - 4 paintings; :*[[Bernardo Daddi|Daddi, Bernardo]] - 1 painting; :*[[Carlo Dolci|Dolci, Carlo]] - 3 painting; :*[[Domenico Zampieri|Domenichino, Zapieri]] - 1 painting; :*[[Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna]] - 1 painting; :*[[Gentile da Fabriano]] - 1 painting; :*[[Domenico Fetti|Fetti, Domenico]] - 5 paintings; :*[[Raffaellino del Garbo|Garbo, Raffaellino del]] - 1 painting; :*[[Lattanzio Gambara|Gambara, Lattanzio]] - 8 paintings; :*[[Luca Giordano|Giordano, Luca]] - 12 paintings; :*[[Guercino]], (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) - 1 painting; :*[[Pietro Longhi|Longhi, Pietro]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Lorenzo Lotto|Lotto, Lorenzo]] - 1 painting; :*[[Andrea Mantegna|Mantegna, Andrea]] - 9 canvases known as [[Triumphs of Caesar|The Triumphs of Caesar]] :*[[Parmigianino]] - 2 paintings and 30 drawings :*[[Pietro Perugino|Perugino, Pietro]] - 1 painting; :*[[Francesco Pesellino|Pesellino, Francesco]] - 1 painting; :*[[Raphael|Raphael, (Raffaello Sanzio)]] - 8 Paintings; :*[[Raffaellino del Garbo]] - 1 painting; :*[[Guido Reni|Reni, Guido]] - 1 paiewnting; :*[[Sebastiano Ricci|Ricci, Sebastiano]] - 9 paintings; :*[[Giulio Romano|Romano, Giulio]] - 6 paintings; :*[[Andrea Sacchi|Sacchi, Andrea]] - 130 drawings; :*[[Andrea del Sarto|Sarto, Andrea del]] - 2 paintings; :*Strozzi, Zanobi - 1 painting; :*[[Tintoretto|Tintoretto, Jacopo]] - 5 paintings; :*[[Titian]], (Tiziano Vecelli) - 4 paintings; :*[[Perino del Vaga|Vaga, Perino del]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari, Giorgio]] - 1 painting; :*[[Palma Vecchio|Vecchio, Palma]] - 2 paintings; :*[[Paolo Veronese|Veronese, Paolo]] - 3 paintings; :*[[Antonio Verrio|Verrio, Antonio]] - 1 painting; :*[[Federico Zuccaro|Zuccaro, Federico]] - 1 painting; :*[[Francesco Zuccarelli|Zuccarelli, Francesco]] - 27 paintings; == Trivia == {{Trivia|date=June 2008}} *The "Friends of the Fitzwilliam" was founded in [[1909]] and is the oldest society in Britain devoted to supporting a museum. One of the longest serving members (1935 - 2003) was [[Denys Spittle]] whose collection of manuscripts was exhibited in 2007 under the title "Private Pleasures: Illuminated manuscripts from Persia to Paris". *In January [[2006]] a visitor, Nick Flynn, who had tripped on his [[shoelace]]s and fallen down a stairway severely damaged three [[Qing Dynasty]] vases which had been displayed there since 1948. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4662424.stm] In April 2006 Mr. Flynn was arrested on charges of causing [[criminal damage]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4878850.stm] Charges against him were later dropped.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5098362.stm] The first of the vases was restored by experts and put back on display in August 2006. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5252656.stm] ==Directors== [[Image:HenryMoore RecliningFigure 1951.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Henry Moore]] sculpture outside the museum]] {{listdev}} *Timothy Potts, former director of the [[Kimbell Art Museum]] [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007060103], 2007- *[[Duncan Robinson]] 1995-2007 *Simon Swynfen Jervis 1990-1995 *Professor Michael Jaffé 1973-1990 *Sir David Piper 1966-1973 *Carl Winter 1946-1966 *Louis Clarke 1937-1946 *Sir [[Sydney Cockerell]] 1908-1937 *Sir [[Charles Waldstein (archaeologist)|Charles Walston]] 1883-1889 ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commonscat|Fitzwilliam Museum}} *[http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ Fitzwilliam Museum website] *[http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/libmuseums/fm.html University of Cambridge information] *[http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/architect_builder/George_Basevi.html External views of the Fitzwilliam Museum] *[http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/fitzwilliam.htm Paintings from The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge] exhibition at the [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]], [[London]], 2002 {{coord|52|12|01|N|0|07|10|E|display=title|region:GB_type:landmark_source:dewiki}} [[Category:1816 establishments]] [[Category:Art museums and galleries in England]] [[Category:Museums of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Biographical museums in the United Kingdom]] [[de:Fitzwilliam-Museum]] [[fr:Fitzwilliam Museum]] [[it:Fitzwilliam Museum]]