Location: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery Date(s): Friday 27 February – Friday 27 March 10.15am 12.15pm Cost: £6 per lecture, or £25 for the whole series ticket Includes tea/coffee and biscuits Booking essential Before there were public art galleries there were cabinets of curiosities, where connoisseurs demonstrated their taste and learning through the objects they had collected and commissioned. Classical and exotic objects were particularly prized. This series explores ‘curiosities’ created to highlight the taste and career of patrons. It explores the different ways in which artists responded to these trends with their own collections, creations and re-imaginings. Friday 27 February Questioning the Canon: Thoughts on the Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton Speaker: Conny Bailey Artwork: Allegorical Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton Friday 6 March Humanists, Connoisseurs and Collections: unearthing and reimagining in the Italian Renaissance. Speaker: Miriam Gill Artwork: Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, A Classical Sacrifice Friday 13 March Among my Souvenirs: collecting and Grand Tour whimsy Speaker: Miriam Gill Artwork: Giacomo Guardi (attributed to), Piazza San Marco Friday 20 March Art and Archaeology: record or re-imagining Speaker: Miriam Gill Artwork: Peter Berrisford, Mills at Pompei Friday 27 March The persistent object: studio ephemera in art Speaker: Conny...