A feast for the senses

29 November 2019

A mouth-watering / stomach-churning new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores our complex relationship with food

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Folding ‘Trompe l’oeil’ fan, English, c.1750

How we fell in love with shopping

20 March 2015

An exhibition of ‘treasured possessions’ from the 15th to the 18th centuries reveals how we first fell in love with shopping, and takes us back to an age when our belongings were made by hand and passed down through the generations.

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Nude bacchants riding panthers, c.1506 - 08

Michelangelo bronzes discovered

02 February 2015

It was thought that no bronzes by Michelangelo had survived - now experts believe they have found not one, but two - with a tiny detail in a 500-year-old drawing providing vital evidence.

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