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A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

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Read an object: Ramesses III’s coffin

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A colourful oil painting of insects, shells, and flowers, including a caterpillar, butterflies, beetles. flies and blue and purple flowers.

Butterflies and other insects

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Springtime by Claude Monet, painted in 1886

Fact Sheets: Impressionism

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A piece of paper with 5 different pencil sketches of surgeons' hands: cutting, hammering, moving things. the bottom right corner is signed and dated by the artist, Barbara Hepworth.

Study Of Surgeons’ Hands

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

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Japanese Art and Impressionism

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A painting of a room with a pink floor and grey-white walls. An angel kneels and points upwards, holding a flower, in the direction of the Virgin Mary, a woman in blue with a halo over her head.

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Narratives

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A painting of a tree and some reeds in stormy weather. The tree is broken across its trunk and the reeds are bending over in the wind.

The Oak and the Reed

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

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Ask an Expert: Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Ancient Greek myths

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A painting of the Virgin Mary and Joseph gathered around the baby Jesus, inside a stable. In the background, the Magi are en route to the stable and the light of an angel shines brightly over some shepherds on a hill.

The Nativity

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Roman “Swiss Army Knife”

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A painting of a white tea cup on a white saucer witha silver spoon. These three things are against a dark brown background.

White Cup and Saucer

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A portrait painting of a worried woman, leaning away from a man who is whispering in her ear through a window. Behind her, through the window, some people lean over a card table, gambling.

Fact Sheets: Reading Paintings

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

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Read an object: the Pashley sarcophagus

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A painting of Nonsuch Palace from the 17th entury, showing grass and rows of trees with people in front of the palace in the distance.

Nonsuch Palace

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A graphite drawing of a young Black man wearing a ruff. he is surrounded by embossed outlines of various people.

Vanishing Point 29 (Duyster)

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A large porcelain Chinese jar with blue decorations showing a dragon with a long body in the sky.

Dragon Jar

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A painting of a woman in blue, sitting in a cushioned chair, reading a small book.There is a table next to her with a cup on it. The woman has long dark hair falling behind her back.

Fact Sheets: Portraits

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A photograph of a blue sculpture which twists and turns around in a circle. It is a mobius strip.

Blue Twisted Form

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The Fitzwilliam Museum Portico

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A pencil sketch of a pony in a background by French 19th century artist Rosa Bonheur.

A Pony, in a landscape

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A gilded gingerbread woman stands upright in front of a the wooden mould from which she was baked.

Gilded gingerbread gentlewoman

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A photograph of a section of a highly sculpted marble coffin, showing a person riding a chariot as well as two centaurs, as well as people relaxing and eating all across the top.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Greece

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A book of medieval shet music open at two pages tat show a complicated musical score.

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

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A page of a medieval manuscript with a border decorated with leaves, angels and dragons.

Illuminated Manuscript

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A Village Festival

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A photograph of a small mummified cat, in brown wrappings, with little ears poking up.

Fact Sheets: Ancient Egypt

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A photograph of the Cambridge hoard: a pile of many silver pennies and nine larger gold coins.

Chesterton Lane Hoard

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Photograph of a Roman mosaic laid in a niche. The colours are blues and greens and an optical illusion is created of a window that looks out onto a scene of plants, flying birds, and one peacock perching on the ledge.

Ancient Roman Mosaic

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A photograph of the artwork Shadow Play, by Bridget Riley. The artwork consists of tens of diagonal stripes in different colours of blues, yellows, greens, pinks, and greys.

Shadowplay

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A photograph of a ceramic bowl made by artist Elspeth Owen.

Bowl

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Constellation Chart

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An Islamic Iznik tile with red green and blue decoration of natural forms

Iznik Tile

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A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.

Ramesses III

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a glass mosque lamp decorated with blue, and red calligraphy and symbols

Mosque Lamp

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Flowers in a glass vase

Flowers in a glass vase

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Wepwawetemhat’s coffin fragment

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an oval miniature painting of Queen Elizabeth I wearing a gold dress, white ruff and jewels.

Tudor Miniatures – Queen Elizabeth I

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An American Flamingo drawn and hand painted in its habitat for a book called Birds of America

American flamingo from Birds of America

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A snowy secene of a house and some trees painted by Camille Pissarro

Piette’s House at Montfoucault

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A painting of a dressmaker fitting a white dress to a lady. painted by Marie Louise von Motesïczky

At the Dressmaker’s

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A mannequin dressed in a medieval suit of armour sits on a lifesize horse model, which is also dressd in armour

Armour

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a pair of hand thrown stone ware sculptures painted and stained by Shawnada Corbettt

Candy Lady pair by Shawanda Corbett

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A carbved wooden figure of Guanyin the God(dess) of Mercy covered in gold lacquer

A figure of Guanyin God(dess) of Mercy

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A painting showing a couple and there baby in a ship making a voyage across the sea painted by Ford Madox Brown

The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown

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Fact Sheets: Renaissance

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A gold medal showing Queen Elizabeth I on one side , and on the other a representation of an island supposed to be England.

‘Dangers Averted’ gold medal

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A penny stamped with ' Votes for women' across the front

“Votes for Women” coin

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A painting of two identical young women, in similar smart coats and neckties. One holds a hat and the other holds a riding crop, and to the bottom left of the portrait sits a wiry-haired sighthound.

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Looking at Collections

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A painting of two identical young women, in similar smart coats and neckties. One holds a hat and the other holds a riding crop, and to the bottom left of the portrait sits a wiry-haired sighthound.

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Portraits

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A display case with levels showing manay mini eye idols created by the artist Issam Kourbaj craved from Syrian Soap

Eye Idols by Issam Kourbaj

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Elizabeth Vernon

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A painting of two identical young women, in similar smart coats and neckties. One holds a hat and the other holds a riding crop, and to the bottom left of the portrait sits a wiry-haired sighthound.

The Twins by John Everett Millais

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A painting by Renoir of a meadow and gust of wind blowing clouds

A Gust of Wind by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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A green ceramic stoneware water jar. It is decorated with animals. This side shows a lizard, scorpion and fish.

Water Jar by Ladi Kwali

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Rocks at Port-Coton, Lion Rock painted by Claude Monet

Rocks at Port-Coton, The Lion Rock

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A photograph of a sculpture called Minoan Head made by Barbara Hepworth. It is a tall white marble abstract sculpture with a hole in the middle, going all the way through. The shape is like a cuboid in shape, with rounded edges. The right side has three lines carved into it, perpendicular coming down.

Minoan Head

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oil sketch of the sky with a shaft of sunlight coming through the clouds

Cloud study with a shaft of sunlight

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Springtime by Claude Monet, painted in 1886

Springtime by Claude Monet

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(Parts of the) Book of the Dead of Ramose Unknown maker, Egypt 1300 BCE

The Book of the Dead of Ramose

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inner section of Pakepu's coffin, a water pourer from Thebes, showing a scarab beetle

Scarab Beetle

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Bust of Antinous

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Mummy board from the coffin set of Nespawershefyt

The coffin set of Nespawershefyt

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Caryatid from the temple of Demeter

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How to Read a Painting

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Cupid and Psyche

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Making an ancient Greek pot

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Pakepu’s coffin set

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Ancient Greek Pot

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In the Tomb

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Abstraction: Painting

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A photograph of a sculpture called Minoan Head made by Barbara Hepworth. It is a tall white marble abstract sculpture with a hole in the middle, going all the way through. The shape is like a cuboid in shape, with rounded edges. The right side has three lines carved into it, perpendicular coming down.

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Abstraction: Sculpture

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