Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge not only houses the University of Cambridge's art collection but is also a public museum and art gallery with an international reputation. More than half a million objects and works of art are held in five curatorial departments: Antiquities, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Manuscripts and Printed Books and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. This sumptuous new book on the collections, published to celebrate the re-opening of the museum in June 2004 following the Courtyard development and extensive refurbishment, is designed to highlight the Museum's many treasures, ranging from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to the arts of the 21st century and including masterpieces by Titian, Canaletto, Stubbs, Constable, Monet, Renoir and Picasso, one of the world's foremost Rembrandt print collections, Handel music manuscripts and the famous Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most significant collections of Korean ceramics outside South-East Asia. Richly illustrated with a clear, explanatory text, this superb addition to Scala's prestigious series on the great collections of the world.