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From antiquity to the present day, the Fitzwilliam houses a world-renowned collection of over half a million beautiful works of art, masterpiece paintings and historical artefacts. From this page, one can explore themes, periods and contexts for some of our highlight objects, or explore our entire collection.

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Religious Art

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Domestic Art

Self-portrait, with the Colosseum, Rome

Perceptions of People

Perceptions of Places

Power and Status

Tarquin and Lucretia, painted by Titian

Love and Sex

Pd.108 1975 Lrg

Narrative Art

Death

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Ancient World

20th century

Middle Ages

Italy 1400 - 1700

Italy 1400 1700

Northern Europe 1400 - 1700

Northern Europe 1400 1700

19th century

18th century

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The ancient site of Eleusis, image by Carol Raddato, used under creative common cc by sa

Stories and histories

The top section of an Eleusis caryatid from the Greek and Roman gallery

Tradition and change

A portrait of the Great Belzoni by Jan Adam Kruseman (1804–62)

Patrons donors collectors

An Allegory of the Labours of Heracles

Subjects

A sixteenth-century German reliquary in the Fitzwilliam collection

Function

Headline: Cain and Abel, William de Brailes Psalter

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