We visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2017 and were immediately impressed with its atmosphere and art work presentation – so we used the chance to try to apply our photographic technique to document some of its galleries in linearized perspectives. This approach was repeated by our team in 2021 when we documented the Andreas Gursky exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Saxony (Germany).
Located on Trumpington Street in Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is named after Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745–1816), and was founded in 1816 after his death. The museum is renowned as one of the finest collections of antiquities and modern art in western Europe. Its treasures include artworks by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Dyck, and Canaletto, as well as a winged bas-relief from Nimrud. It is free to enter for the public.
Below you will find our documentation of some of its galleries as they presented themselves during our visit in april 2017. We hope to give you an inspiring glimpse into this unusual treasure trove of European art.
Gallery 5: French Art 19th–20th Century
Gallery 1: British and European Art, 19th–20th Century
Gallery 15: Dutch Art 17th–18th Century
Gallery 3: British Art, 16th–18th Century – the museums showcase picture gallery with a high, complex plasterwork ceiling.
We would like to thank the Fitzwilliam Museum for allowing us to finnish this documentation.
We would also like to acknowledge the following artists’ estates:
© The estate of Sir William Nicholson.
© The estate of Stanley Spencer/Bridgeman Images, London.
© The estate of Ethel Sands.
© The estate of Augustus John/Bridgeman Images, London.
If you own the rights to one of the artworks recognizable in these images and if you feel we should remove one of the gallery images, please let us know.
