Das Institut de France ist eine wissenschaftliche Vereinigung in Frankreich mit Sitz im Collège des Quatre Nations in Paris. Es wurde nach Auflösung der königlichen Akademien während der Französischen Revolution 1795 als Institut National des Sciences et Arts als Dachorganisation und oberstes Organ der neuen, nunmehr staatlichen Akademien gegründet und vereint heute die fünf nachstehend aufgeführten Organisationen:
Académie française
Académie des Beaux-Arts
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Académie des sciences
Académie des sciences morales et politiques An der Spitze des Institut de France steht als Präsident der Rektor der Académie française.
Das Institut de France wird durch Privatunternehmen und Einzelpersonen gefördert und gibt jährliche Publikationen durch die Akademien und die wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften heraus. Besondere Pflege wird der naturwissenschaftlichen und naturgeschichtlichen Forschung zuteil durch das Collège de France und das Muséum national d’histoire naturelle.
Auch verleiht das Institut de France zahlreiche Preise, darunter den Osiris-Preis, den D’Animale-Preis, den Prix Montyon und den Jaffe-Preis.
Bexhill Museum is in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. An independent museum founded in 1914. The museum is run as a registered charity supported by volunteers and two employees.
Die Berlinische Galerie ist ein Ausstellungsgebäude in der Alten Jakobstraße im Berliner Ortsteil Kreuzberg. Das Museum sammelt in Berlin seit 1870 entstandene Kunst mit einem regionalen und internationalen Schwerpunkt. Die Sammlung besteht aus Bildender Kunst, Fotografie, Architektur, Grafik und Künstlerarchiven. Direktor des Museums ist seit September 2010 der Kunsthistoriker Thomas Köhler, bis dahin stellvertretender Direktor, als Nachfolger von Jörn Merkert.
Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It also houses a library and an art collection, and it is the site of Italian and English gardens. Villa I Tatti is located on an estate of olive groves, vineyards, and gardens on the border of Florence, Fiesole and Settignano.
Villa I Tatti is not generally open to the public.
Beecroft Art Gallery is a gallery in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Prior to 2014, the gallery was formerly located in and Edwardian building on Station Road at Westcliff-on-Sea which was donated to the people of Southend-on-Sea in 1952 by Walter Beecroft to house his eclectic collection of art works. Walter Beecroft was a solicitor in nearby Leigh. He had already set up an Art Gallery Sub-Committee of the Public Libraries & Museum Committee in 1928, and in 1947 he proposed to endow a building to become and Art Gallery. Eventually, this led to the Beecroft Art Gallery on Station Road. Beecroft also endowed the Beecroft Bequest, an art purchase fund administered by the Museums Association. The gallery was resited in 2014 to the former home of the Central Library on Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea.
The Bedford Town Hall is located at 70 Bedford Center Road in Bedford, New Hampshire. Built in 1910, it is a prominent early work of Chase R. Whitcher, a noted architect of northern New England in the early 20th century. The building is the third town hall to stand on this site, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Art museums of Ukraine possess many Western European paintings. There, one can see canvases by world-famous artists as well as by the painters whose works throughout the world are unique .
Der Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile oder kurz Arc de Triomphe ist ein von 1806 bis 1836 errichtetes Denkmal im Zentrum der Place Charles-de-Gaulle in Paris. Er gehört zu den Wahrzeichen der Metropole. Unter dem Bogen liegt das Grabmal des unbekannten Soldaten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg mit der täglich gewarteten Ewigen Flamme, im Französischen Flamme du Souvenir genannt, im Gedenken an die Toten, die nie identifiziert wurden. Das ganze Jahr hindurch finden Kranzniederlegungen und Ehrungen statt, die ihren Höhepunkt in der Parade am 11. November finden, dem Jahrestag des Waffenstillstands zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland im Jahr 1918.
Für Fußgänger ist der Arc de Triomphe nur durch eine Unterführung erreichbar; der Triumphbogen verfügt über eine Aussichtsplattform.
Der Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile ist nicht zu verwechseln mit dem weniger bekannten und kleineren Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, der sich zwischen dem Palais du Louvre und dem Jardin des Tuileries befindet.
The Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti is a tertiary academy of fine arts located in Genoa, Italy. It also houses a museum , which includes works of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giuseppe Abbati, Anton Raphael Mengs, Perin del Vaga, Luca Cambiaso, Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Sinibaldo Scorza, Domenico Fiasella, Luciano Borzone, Serafino De Tivoli, Plinio Nomellini. The academy was founded in 1751.
Die Accademia di San Luca, heute Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, ist eine 1577 gegründete Vereinigung von Künstlern in Rom, die von Papst Gregor XIII. initiiert und 1593 von dem erfolgreichen Maler Federico Zuccari zusammen mit Kardinal Federico Borromeo gegründet wurde. Zuccari war auch deren erster Präsident und entwickelte in dieser Funktion erste Ansätze einer Reform des Kunstunterrichts. Zu den Gründungsmitgliedern gehörte unter anderem Girolamo Muziano. Namensgeber der Akademie ist der Evangelist Lukas, der nach der Legende ein Gemälde der Jungfrau Maria schuf und aufgrund dessen als Schutzpatron der Maler gilt.
The Mansion House in York, England is the home of the Lord Mayors of York during their term in office. It is situated in St Helen's Square, where York's Coney Street and Lendal intersect in the city centre. It is built in an early Georgian style. The Mansion House is the earliest purpose built house for a Lord Mayor still in existence and predates the Mansion House in London by at least twenty years.
The foundation stone for the Mansion House was laid in 1725, with the building being completed seven years later in 1732. The architect who designed the Mansion House is unknown, although the frontage may be by William Etty.
Die Guildhall der Stadt York ist ein aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammendes Versammlungsgebäude der Zünfte. Aufgrund der schweren Schäden durch einen deutschen Luftangriff im Rahmen des so genannten Baedeker Blitz ist das gegenwärtige Gebäude zum größten Teil eine 1960 eröffnete Rekonstruktion. Der so genannte Innere Raum hat allerdings den Angriff intakt überstanden, mit Wandvertäfelungen und einer Geschichte der Stadt York auf einem Glasfenster. Die Guildhall war Schauplatz zahlreicher Geschehnisse der britischen Geschichte.
The William Benton Museum of Art is a public fine arts museum located on the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, US. The Benton houses a permanent collection of over 6,500 artistic works and hosts special exhibitions, concerts, campus art walks, and other events. The museum is named in honor of the prominent U.S. senator and university trustee William Benton. The Benton has a cafe and a gift store. Admission to the museum is free for all.Constructed in 1920 and used for twenty years as University's main dining hall, the Benton opened officially as an art museum in 1967. The museum building is designed in the Collegiate Gothic style and is one of the core campus buildings in the University of Connecticut Historic District-Connecticut Agricultural School, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The Benton's collection originated with former Connecticut Agricultural College president Charles Lewis Beach, who began the college's art collection, bequeathed his personal collection of American art to the college in 1933, and left a trust fund for the college to continue acquiring art. Developed over the ensuing decades, the museum's permanent collection includes works by Childe Hassam, Henry Ward Ranger, Emil Carlson, Charles Harold Davis, Ernest Lawson, Ellen Emmet Rand, Guy Wiggins, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton, Fairfield Porter, George Bellows, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt Peale, Georges Braque, Edward Burne-Jones, Reginald Marsh, Käthe-Kollwitz, Arthur Bowen Davies, Maurice Prendergast and Kiki Smith. The collection is strongest in modern and American art, but some works date to the Renaissance, and exhibits are highly diverse.
West Lothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and one of its historic counties. The county, which was also known as Linlithgowshire, was bounded geographically by the Avon to the west and the Almond to the east. The modern council area occupies a larger area, with areas in the west transferred to Falkirk and areas in the east transferred to Edinburgh following local government reforms in the late 20th century. It did however gain areas from Midlothian.
West Lothian lies on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and is predominantly rural, though there were extensive coal, iron, and shale oil mining operations in the 19th and 20th centuries, which created distinctive red spoil heaps throughout the council area. The old county town was the royal burgh of Linlithgow, but the largest town is now Livingston.
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery is a purpose-built Victorian art gallery in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England. It is notable for its Ruskin Pottery collection and for hosting the first public display of the Stuckism art movement.
Villa Caldogno is a villa in the Veneto region of Italy, which is attributed to Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It was built for the aristocratic Caldogno family on their estate in the village of Caldogno near Vicenza. It is also known as the "Villa Nordera" after Dr. Ettore Nordera who owned the property through a large part of the 20th century.
The Grão Vasco Museum is an art museum located in the city of Viseu, in Portugal. The museum is named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes , who had his workshop in Viseu.
The museum, founded in 1916, occupies the building of the old Seminary, located beside Viseu Cathedral. The building, began in the late 16th century in Mannerist style, has had its interior recently modernised by Porto architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
The main exhibits of the museum are the painted altarpieces executed for Viseu Cathedral during the Renaissance. These include the main altarpiece, executed by a workshop that included the young Vasco Fernandes and was apparently led by Francisco Henriques, as well as later altarpieces by a mature Vasco Fernandes and his collaborator, Gaspar Vaz. The artistic significance of these altarpieces turn the Grão Vasco Museum into one of the most important
art museums in Portugal.
The collections also include metalwork, tapestry and sculpture.
