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The Quercus suber 🌱depicted here by Georg Dionysius Ehret in our Scent from Nature exhibition, produces a useful and sustainable material: cork. Lush are producing cork cosmetic pots, reducing the amount of plastic waste produced by the beauty industry #WorldEnvironmentDay2021
Albrecht Dürer was born 550 yrs ago #OTD in 1471 during the Renaissance, a time of upheaval, that rang in the early modern age when the peasants demanded to be treated as equals. Dürer was the first German artist to portray peasants as esthetic subjects
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Have you ever seen something on display and thought, "I could do better!" So did Rubens...
An artist, perhaps Bartolomeo Passarotti, made this drawing depicting two clean shaven men.
Rubens acquired this around 1600 and made alterations, adding volume and texture.
#HumanTouch
Tulips 🌷have influenced four centuries of art & design on textiles, objects d’art, & furniture. Many designers followed William Morris’s 1862 floral🌷design including Tiffany Studios, with its “Tulip” lamp; and 🌷vase designs by René Lalique.
#spring 🔗https://t.co/FuXHQj5074
Scent from Nature: Beauty’s botanical origins
until Aug 29 https://t.co/QH7dc5R1Ov
Containing some of the earliest examples of botanical illustration from our exceptional collection it examines plants which have been used in the beauty & fragrance industry.
#NationalUnicornDay
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Albrecht Dürer, printmaker and painter, #dotd in 1528
Here we have St Jerome in his study, accompanied by symbols attributed to the saint...what can you spot? 🔎🤔
It’s #WearAHatDay and we’re eager to show off some of the fabulous hats in our collection 👒 🎩
Starting off strong 💪 with this outing of MASSIVE hats on their way to Scarborough 🏖
We couldn’t let a day celebrating #IrishArt go by without sharing our views of Mount Merrion in Dublin☘️
The Fitzwilliam family acquired the land in the 14th century.
The land and estate belonged to our founder, Richard Fitzwilliam, until his death in 1816.
#OnlineArtExchange
MINIARE, a project employing non-invasive methods to identify painting materials & techniques in manuscripts
A major result of this work was our exhibition, ‘COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts’
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#BSW21