Das Castel Nuovo , oft auch Maschio Angioino genannt, ist eine Burg in Neapel, Italien. Es ist eines der bekanntesten Bauwerke der Stadt. Die Burg wurde seit dem Baubeginn 1279 mehrfach umgebaut und renoviert. Sie diente unter verschiedenen Königen meist in einer Doppelfunktion als Festung und Residenz.
Das Kapitol ist der Sitz des Kongresses, der Legislative der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, in Washington, D.C. In ihm finden Sitzungen des Senats und des Repräsentantenhauses statt. Neben den Parlamentskammern beherbergt das klassizistische Bauwerk zahlreiche Kunstwerke zur Geschichte der USA. Es ist mit drei bis fünf Millionen Besuchern im Jahr eines der populärsten Tourismusziele des Landes.
Das von 1793 bis 1823 erbaute und von 1851 bis 1863 umfassend erweiterte Gebäude besteht aus einer Rotunde mit einer Kuppel, an die die beiden Parlamentsflügel anschließen. Das Kapitol ist 229 Meter lang, bis zu 107 Meter breit und an seiner höchsten Stelle 88 Meter hoch. Es war nach dem Weißen Haus das erste größere Bauwerk in Washington, D.C., um das die Stadt herum entstand. Direkt um das Kapitol liegt der Kapitolkomplex, zu dem unter anderem die Library of Congress und die Gebäude des Supreme Courts gehören.
Bauaufsicht und Verwaltung des Kapitols sowie des Kapitolkomplexes obliegen dem Architekten des Kapitols. Prägende Architekten in der Baugeschichte waren William Thornton, von dem die ursprüngliche Planung stammt, Henry Latrobe, der das Kapitol in seiner ersten Version fertigstellte, und Thomas Ustick Walter, von dem die heutige Form der Kuppel und die Erweiterungsbauten der Seitenflügel stammen.
Das Kapitol wurde 1986 von der American Society of Civil Engineers in die List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks aufgenommen und hat seit 1960 den Status einer National Historic Landmark.
Die Bezeichnung Kapitol leitet sich vom wichtigsten der sieben Hügel Roms, dem Kapitolinischen Hügel, ab. In der Zeit des Klassizismus wurde dessen Name auf andere Gebäude übertragen, unter anderem auch auf den Sitz des amerikanischen Parlaments. Er soll damit die republikanische Tradition betonen, in der sich die USA sehen.
Cape Ann Museum is located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Its collection focuses mainly on artists and artist colonies from the Cape Ann area of the state, and the history of Gloucester as a fishing and trading port.
Giotto's Campanile is a free-standing campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
Standing adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of St. John, the tower is one of the showpieces of Florentine Gothic architecture with its design by Giotto, its rich sculptural decorations and its polychrome marble encrustations.
The slender structure is square in plan with 14.45 metre sides. It is 84.7 metres tall and has polygonal buttresses at each corner. The tower is divided into five stages.
The Cameron Art Museum, formerly known as St. John's Museum of Art, was established in 1962 in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina in the 1804 Masonic Lodge building. The museum operated successfully in the downtown area for forty years and, eventually, outgrew its space. In 2001, the museum was relocated to the intersection of Independence and 17th Streets, changing its name to the Cameron Art Museum. The museum's new facilities allowed for the construction of three exhibition areas along with a lecture and reception hall. In addition, it provided space for outdoor exhibits, a clay studio, and an arts education center.
The Camera di San Paolo or Camera della Badessa is a room in the former Monastery of San Paolo, in Parma, northern Italy. It is painted with frescoes by Correggio in the vault and over the fireplace.
The Brunton Theatre is a mid-scale performing arts venue in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. It is part of a wider complex, incorporating council offices, and called Brunton Memorial Hall.
The building is textured concrete and glass, and was designed by William Kininmonth, with a gilded relief sculpture by Tom Whalen on the facade. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother opened it in 1971. The name derives from John D. Brunton, son of John Brunton, the founder of the Brunton Wireworks. He died in 1951 and left a bequest of £700,000 to the people of Musselburgh for the purpose of creating a community hall. The Town Council supplemented this and created a larger scheme which incorporated their offices.There are two performance spaces in the building: a 300 capacity theatre, with notably clear sightlines, and a main hall upstairs, which seats 500. The main hall hosts classical music concerts, comedy and contemporary dance performances, as well as regular cinema screenings and live screenings from the National Theatre and Royal Opera House. The theatre underwent refurbishment in the late 1990s, while the entire building was refurbished in 2010-11 for £3.2 million. There is also a curved bar area, and artwork around the theatre complex by Glasgow-based glass artist Deborah Campbell. Venue hire is managed by East Lothian Council, while artistic programming is organised by the Brunton Theatre Trust, established in 1994.Children's theatre company, Catherine Wheels, are the resident company, and the theatre also acts as venue 191 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. The museum is a privately funded nonprofit institution located in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis.
The Brandywine River Museum of Art is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Brandywine Creek. The museum showcases the art of Andrew Wyeth, a major American realist painter, and his family: his father N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of many children’s classics, and his son Jamie Wyeth, a contemporary American realist painter.The museum is housed in a converted nineteenth century mill with a dramatic steel and glass addition overlooking the banks of the Brandywine River . The museum's permanent collection features American illustration, still life works, and landscape painting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, Harvey Dunn, Peter Hurd, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, William Trost Richards, and Jessie Willcox Smith. The glass-wall lobby overlooks the river and rolling countryside that inspired the Brandywine School earlier in the early 20th century.The museum also owns and operates tours of three nearby National Historic Landmarks: the N. C. Wyeth House and Studio, the Kuerner Farm, inspiration for nearly 1,000 works of art by Andrew Wyeth for more than 70 years, and the Andrew Wyeth Studio, where the artist painted from 1940 until just before his death. The building also served as his home; he and his wife Betsy moved in as newlyweds and lived here until the early 1960s, raising their two sons. Outside the museum are beautifully maintained wildflower and native plant gardens.The museum is a program of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. It opened in 1971 through the efforts of "Frolic" Weymouth, who also served on its board.
Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public. There is a Horse Emporium in the old canteen block plus a shop in the mill, and entry is free of charge.
The Bowers Museum is an art museum located in Orange County, California. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 100,000 objects, and features notable strengths in the areas of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Native American art, the art of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and California plein-air painting. The Bowers organizes and hosts special exhibitions from institutions throughout the world, and travels exhibitions nationally and internationally. The museum has a second campus two blocks south of the main site, Kidseum, a children's museum with a focus on art and archaeology. The Bowers Museum and Kidseum are located in Santa Ana 6.4 km south of Disneyland.
Boston Manor is an English Jacobean manor house built in 1622 with internal alterations, intensively restored in later centuries and Boston Manor Park is the adjoining publicly owned green space including a lake. It was the manor house of one of the early medieval-founded manors in Middlesex. Since 1965 its small part of the parish of Hanwell has been part of the London Borough of Hounslow in west London.
Eger [ˈɛgɛr] ist eine Stadt mit Komitatsrecht im Norden Ungarns mit ca. 56.000 Einwohnern. Es ist eine der ältesten Stadtgründungen Ungarns und der Komitatssitz des Komitats Heves.
Bekannt ist Eger durch die großen Weinanbaugebiete in der Umgebung, die neben anderen Weinsorten auch den bekannten Rotwein Erlauer Stierblut hervorbringen. In der Stadt gibt es zahlreiche Weinstuben und traditionelle, teils unterirdische, Weinkeller. Das Stadtbild ist außerdem geprägt durch barocke Bauten, das Minarett aus der Zeit der osmanischen Herrschaft, die mittelalterliche Burg und durch die Kathedrale St. Johannes und St. Michael, der nach der in Esztergom zweitgrößten in Ungarn.
Ferner ist Eger für seine Thermalquelle und das Thermalbad bekannt. Das Thermalbad befindet sich direkt neben dem großen Stadtpark. Es gibt Becken mit unterschiedlichen Wasserarten und -temperaturen. Im Sommer ist das Bad sehr gut besucht. Eger hat durch die Thermalquellen immer schon einen Bezug zum Baden und zum Wassersport. Die Förderung von möglichen Talenten beginnt schon im Schulalter und wird durch den Stundenplan unterstützt. Eger hat eine der stärksten Wasserball-Mannschaften im Land und die verschiedenen Schwimmteams erringen oft hohe Medaillenplätze.
Unter dem Begriff italienische Nationalbibliotheken werden die beiden zentralen Nationalbibliotheken Italiens in Florenz und Rom sowie sieben weitere Bibliotheken subsumiert, die die Bezeichnung „Nationalbibliothek“ führen.
