Die Villa Medici in Poggio a Caiano bei Prato ist eine Villa in der Toscana, die seit dem Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts den Medici als Sommersitz diente.
Sie wurde erbaut nach den Plänen von Giuliano da Sangallo und war Vorbild für eine Villenarchitektur der Renaissance, die sich an Prinzipien antiker Villen, wie sie durch Vitruv und Plinius beschrieben worden sind, orientierte.
Vestry House Museum is a history museum in Walthamstow, focusing on the heritage of the local area. The collection includes various artifacts dating from the Victorian Era to the 20th Century including numerous archived documents and photographs.Vestry House was originally built as a workhouse and was later used as a police station and also as private housing . The building became a museum in 1931.On permanent display in the museum is the Bremer Car, the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine, which was built by Frederick Bremer in a workshop at the back of his family home in Connaught Road, Walthamstow. The car first ran in 1892 and was donated to the museum by Bremer in 1933.
Die englische University of Sussex wurde 1961 als erste der zahlreichen neuen Universitäten der 1960er gegründet. Ihr Campus befindet sich in einem Naturschutzgebiet nahe dem Ort Falmer in East Sussex.
Die Universität wurde vom Times Higher Education auf Platz 8 der besten Universitäten in England gewählt. Auch international zählt Sussex laut dem THE World University Ranking mit Platz 16 in Europa und Platz 79 in der Welt zu den angesehensten Universitäten.
Die University of Essex ist eine Campus-Universität im Wivenhoe Park am Stadtrand von Colchester im County Essex, etwa 1 km entfernt vom Ort Wivenhoe. Sie ist eine der in den 1960er-Jahren entstandenen Campus-Universitäten und hat ihre Royal Charter 1965 erhalten. Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist auch die Schauspielschule East 15 Acting School in Loughton Teil der Universität. Daneben besteht ein Campus in Southend-on-Sea.
Die Universität gliedert sich in 22 Fakultäten der Geisteswissenschaften, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Besonders bekannt sind die Bereiche Volkswirtschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie sowie das „Human Rights Centre“.
Die Universität ist Teil der „1994 Group“ von neueren, forschungsstarken Universitäten und hat einen sehr hohen Anteil ausländischer Studenten, fast 40 %; nur die London School of Economics and Political Science und die School of Oriental and African Studies in London haben einen höheren Anteil ausländischer Studenten.
Am Institute for Social and Economic Research wird seit 1991 die British Household Panel Survey durchgeführt.
Die Universität Dundee wurde 1881 als University College gegründet und ist heute die größte Universität in Dundee in Schottland. Das Motto der Universität lautet Magnificat anima mea dominum . Kanzlerin i. S. v. Repräsentantin ist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell .
The Newark Public Library is a public library system in Newark, New Jersey. The library offers numerous programs and events to its diverse population. With eight different locations, the Newark Public Library serves as a Statewide Reference Center. The Newark Public Library is the public library system for the city of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Currently, the library boasts an enormous collection of both art and literature, art and history exhibits, a variety of programs for all ages, and much more.
Jesmond Dene, a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small river known as the Ouseburn, flowing south to join the River Tyne: in north-east England, such valleys are commonly known as denes: the name 'Jesmond' meaning 'mouth of the Ouseburn'.Lord Armstrong and his wife, of the now-demolished Jesmond Dean house nearby, first laid out the park during the 1860s. The design is intended to reflect a rural setting, with woodland, crags, waterfalls and pools. Lord Armstrong gave the park to the people of Newcastle, and it is now owned by Newcastle City Council. The current Jesmond Dene House adjoining the dene was the mansion of Armstrong's business partner Andrew Noble. It is now a luxury hotel.The iron-constructed Armstrong Bridge spans the south end of the Dene and hosts Jesmond Food Market every first and third Saturday of the month. The building of a replacement road and tunnel, the Cradlewell By-pass, was the subject of a road protest camp around 1993, due to the destruction of many 200-year-old trees.
Jesmond Dene contains a free-entry petting zoo known as "Pets' Corner", which has been a popular family attraction since the 1960s.Jesmond Dene is home to Newcastle's oldest religious building, St Mary's Chapel. The chapel, now in ruins, was once a site of much significance, attracting a great number of pilgrims.The park is supported by a group called 'Friends of Jesmond Dene' which provides funds for small projects to improve the park. There is also a group of Volunteer Rangers which carries out physical work tidying the paths, picking up litter, cutting back shrubs and other maintenance tasks.
The dawn chorus of Jesmond Dene has been professionally recorded and has been used in various workplace and hospital rehabilitation facilities.In 2011, the field area and pets corner were redeveloped. The redevelopment included a new road and a bridge over the Ouseburn river.In 2012, during excessively wet weather, a landslide occurred on the east side of the Dene, near the Old Mill. The landslide covered several footpaths running along the hillside. The paths are currently still closed as the cost of re-opening them would be excessive.
In July 2014, the Old Mill in the Dene was vandalised with graffiti tags, which has since been removed.On 1 April 2019, control and upkeep of Jesmond Dene, along with other Newcastle parks, was passed from Newcastle City Council to a newly created charitable trust, Urban Green Newcastle.
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne is a historical library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the largest independent library outside London. The library is still available for both lending and as a free reference library.
The Congregational Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London was built to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Great Ejection of Black Bartholomew's Day, resulting from the 1662 Act of Uniformity which restored the Anglican church. The two thousand puritan ministers who refused to take the oath of conformity thereby established non-conformism.
The architect of the hall was John Tarring.
The hall was built upon the site of the Fleet Prison in Farringdon Street. It opened in 1875 and served as a meeting place and home for the Congregational Library. Other progressive organisations met there including the Labour Party which was founded at a meeting there on 27 February 1900 initially under the name of the Labour Representation Committee.
The hall was demolished in 1968 and Caroone House was built on the site — an office which was used by British Telecom for its international business and telephone tapping.In 1978 the Congregational Memorial Hall Trust was established to handle income from Caroone House and then from the capital raised from its sale. The income is used to maintain the Congregational Library and give grants to the three bodies represented on the trust, the United Reformed Church, the Congregational Federation and the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches.
Die Terra Foundation for American Art ist eine 1978 durch den Unternehmer und Kunstsammler Daniel J. Terra gegründete Stiftung. Sie hat ihren Sitz in Chicago und widmet sich der Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten seit der Kolonialzeit. Die Stiftung besitzt eine bedeutende Kunstsammlung und verfügte zeitweilig über zwei eigene Museen. Heute stellt sie anderen Museen Kunstwerke als Leihgabe zur Verfügung und unterhält ein umfangreiches Bildungs- und Stipendienprogramm.
Der Tempio Malatestiano ist die Kathedralkirche der italienischen Stadt Rimini. Offiziell war sie zunächst nach dem heiligen Franziskus benannt. Sie trägt jedoch üblicherweise den Namen von Sigismondo Malatesta, der den berühmten Theoretiker und Architekten Leon Battista Alberti um 1450 mit einem Neubau beauftragte, der von weiteren Renaissance-Künstlern wie Agostino di Duccio und Piero della Francesca ausgeschmückt wurde.
The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, now colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest, largest, and foremost museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky on Third Street next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus and receives around 180,000 visits annually.The museum offers visitors a variety of "art experiences" outside its collection and international exhibitions, including the Speed Concert Series, the Art Sparks Interactive Family Gallery, and the popular late-night event, After Hours at the Speed.The Speed houses ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world. The focus of the collection is Western art, from antiquity to the present day. Holdings of paintings from the Netherlands, French and Italian works, and contemporary art are particularly strong, with sculpture prominent throughout.
The Iglesia de Santo Tomé is a church located in the historical center of the city of Toledo , and was founded after the reconquest of this city by King Alfonso VI of León. It appears quoted in the 12th century, as constructed on the site of an old mosque of the 11th century. This mosque, together with other mosques in the city, were used as Christian churches without major changes, since in the taking of the city there was no destruction of buildings.
However, at the beginning of the 14th century, being in a ruinous state the church was totally rebuilt in charge of Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, Lord of Orgaz, and the old minaret of the mosque was transformed into a bell tower in Mudéjar style. Its fame is mainly due to the fact that it contains the painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco, which can be seen by accessing the back of church.
Saint-Sulpice ist eine katholische Pfarrkirche im Pariser Stadtteil Saint-Germain-des-Prés . Sie ist dem heiligen Sulpicius II. von Bourges als Namenspatron geweiht.
Die Kirche hat eine Länge von 118 m und eine Breite von 57 m. Mit diesen Maßen ist sie nur wenig kürzer als die Kathedrale Notre Dame de Paris und damit die zweitgrößte Kirche der Stadt. Unter den Kirchenschiffen befinden sich diverse Krypten, deren Grundflächen zusammen fast genauso groß sind wie die Grundfläche der Kirche selbst.
Saint-Sulpice wurde von einigen der größten Adelsfamilien Frankreichs zur Grabstätte auserkoren. In der Krypta ist auch der Komponist und langjährige Organist von St. Sulpice, Charles Marie Widor, bestattet. Berühmte Persönlichkeiten wurden in der Kirche getauft und heirateten dort, so z. B. Victor Hugo und Heinrich Heine.
Aus dem Priesterseminar St. Sulpice sind bedeutende Persönlichkeiten wie z. B. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord hervorgegangen.
Die Hauptorgel der Kirche, weltweit berühmt und ein weitgehend im Originalzustand erhaltenes Meisterwerk von François-Henri Clicquot und Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, war zur Zeit ihrer Entstehung eine der größten Europas und wurde bzw. wird von berühmten Musikern gespielt.
Die Pfarrkirche Saint-Roch steht in der Rue Saint-Honoré Nr. 284, im 1. Arrondissement im Stadtzentrum von Paris. Sie ist dem heiligen Rochus von Montpellier geweiht. Mit einer Länge von 126 m ist sie eine der größten Kirchen von Paris.
The Ruskin Library is a library of the University of Lancaster which houses the Whitehouse Collection of material relating to the English poet, author and artist John Ruskin and his circle. This collection was formed by John Howard Whitehouse, Liberal Member of Parliament.
