This week Matthew Scarborough explains why this Carian funerary stele in the Fitzwilliam Museum is his Museum Favourite. The Fitzwilliam museum contains a number of objects given by the Egypt Exploration Society that it obtained through its excavations and redistributed to different charitable institutions that have supported its work. One of the objects in the … Continue reading
In this week’s Museum Favourite, Anna Judson ventures outside the Faculty to see a pair of paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the Fitzwilliam’s medieval-Renaissance Italian art gallery you can find these two paintings depicting episodes from the Siege of Troy: the Death of Hector and the Wooden Horse. Continue reading
George Watson explains why a replica of a Syracusan coin is his Museum Favourite from the Cast Gallery. One of the less well known of the cast gallery’s holdings is a collection of electrotypes* of Greek coins. Amongst this pretty little set, my favourites have to be the decadrachms of Syracuse: large silver coins of … Continue reading
Patrick Cook explains why the cast of the Venice Tetrarch Group is his Museum Favourite from the Cast Gallery. The cast of the Venice Tetrarchs is at once extremely prominent and all too easy to overlook. It’s prominent because of its prime location: nicely displayed on a corner, and visible from both the first and the … Continue reading
Josh Pugh Ginn explains why the Farnese Hercules is his Museum Favourite from the Cast Gallery. When it comes to picking a cast gallery favourite, for me the choice is an obvious one. In fact, it’s my favourite across two museums: the original from which the cast is taken is for me one of the … Continue reading
Ruth Allen, our Graduate Museum Rep, explains why the Belvedere Torso is her Museum Favourite from the Cast Gallery. Depicting just the torso and upper legs of a male figure seated on a rock, the Belvedere Torso is a remarkable fragment of classical sculpture. Although fractured, what remains is a powerful evocation of masculine physicality: … Continue reading
Over the last two years, the University of Cambridge Museums have been running a series entitled ‘My Museum Favourite’, in which members of staff blog about their favourite museum objects. This year, it’s Res Gerendae’s turn to invite students, staff and visitors to share their favourite objects from the Museum of Classical Archaeology, aka the … Continue reading
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