Wilberforce House is the birthplace of William Wilberforce , the British politician, abolitionist and social reformer, located in the High Street, Kingston upon Hull, England. Like the nearby Blaydes House and Maister House, the building was formerly a Merchant's house with access to quayside on the River Hull. It is now part of Hull's Museums Quarter incorporating the Nelson Mandela garden.William Wilberforce was MP for Kingston upon Hull and was most influential in the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and its colonies, which became his life's work. The house is now a museum showcasing the life and work of one of Hull's most famous sons. It is also classified as a Grade I listed building. The museum re-opened on 25 March 2007, after a two-year £1.6 million redevelopment, in time for the 200th anniversary of Wilberforce's Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.The new exhibition has a broad focus on the history of slavery in addition to items relating to the life and work of Wilberforce. The front garden to the museum contains a statue of Wilberforce which underwent a £10,000 restoration in 2011. The statue was designated a Grade II* in 1994 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. Adjoining the site is Oriel Chambers, the home of the University of Hull's Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation which conducts research into historic and contemporary forms of slavery.The house also exhibits the East Yorkshire regimental collection.
The Fogg Library is a historic library building at 1 Columbian Street in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1897 to a design by Cutting, Carleton & Cutting, the Renaissance Revival stone building serves as a branch of the Weymouth Public Library. It was a gift of local businessman John S. Fogg. It has a steeply pitched gable roof with stepped ends in the Dutch Revival style, and a projecting gable section which houses the entry under a round-arched loggia.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The Western Reserve Historical Society is a historical society in Cleveland, Ohio. The society operates the Cleveland History Center, a collection of museums in University Circle.
The society was founded in 1867, making it the oldest cultural institution in Northeast Ohio. WRHS is focused on the history of the Western Reserve. WRHS celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2017.
The Westerkerk is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the most western part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood , next to the Jordaan, between the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht.
Wells College is a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York. The college has cross-enrollment with Cornell University and Ithaca College.
Wells College is located in the Finger Lakes region of New York. It is about an hour from Syracuse and Rochester and a half-hour drive from both Ithaca and Auburn. It is within the Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The college has an average student body of 450, with a student to faculty ratio of 9:1. It has five residence halls and seven academic buildings.
The Wells and Mendip Museum is a museum in the city of Wells. It is a registered charity and an accredited member of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The exhibits include items of local history and archaeological finds.
Weir Farm National Historic Site is located in Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut. It commemorates the life and work of American impressionist painter J. Alden Weir and other artists who stayed at the site or lived there, to include Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Singer Sargent, and John Twachtman.
Weir Farm is one of two sites in the National Park Service devoted to the visual arts, along with Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.Both sites maintain ongoing artist-in-residence programs; to date, the Weir Farm Art Center has hosted more than 150 artists for month long stays at the site. Weir Farm also runs an ongoing "Take Part in Art" program, under which visitors can create their own works on site.Weir Farm was recognized on the 52nd quarter in 2020 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum is located at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the southeast with a focus on American art. Its programming includes fifteen or more exhibitions per year, year-round educational activities, and scholarly publications. The Weatherspoon Art Museum was accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 1995 and earned reaccreditation status in 2005.
La Universidad Washington y Lee es una universidad privada ubicada en Lexington , Estados Unidos de América.
Su nombre hace referencia al presidente George Washington y al general Robert E. Lee.
The East Slovak Gallery, established in 1951, was the first regional gallery in Slovakia. The mission of the Gallery is the protection and presentation of the collection and documentation of the art scene and artistic life in the region of Eastern Slovakia.
Viscount Boyne, in the province of Leinster, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for the Scottish military commander Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Stackallan. He had already been created Baron Hamilton of Stackallan, in the County of Meath in 1715, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Hamilton was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, youngest son of Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley , third son of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran . His grandson, the second Viscount, represented Newport in the House of Commons. His first cousin, the fourth Viscount, sat as a member of the Irish House of Commons for Navan. His great-grandson, the seventh Viscount, assumed in 1850 the additional surname of Russell . In 1866, he was created Baron Brancepeth, of Brancepeth in the County of Durham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Prior to the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, the Viscounts Boyne sat in the House of Lords in right of this title. As of 2010 the titles are held by the seventh Viscount's great-great-great-grandson, the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1995.
The family seat is at Burwarton House, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
La Villa di Castello es una de las villas de los Médici en Florencia, Toscana, Italia central.
La villa dio su nombre al Plano de Castello, uno de las primeros mapas de Manhattan dibujado en 1660, que fue encontrado en la villa en 1900 e impreso en 1916.[cita requerida]
La villa Madama es un palacio de recreo situado en el monte Mario de Roma. Fue mandado construir por el cardenal Giulio de Medici y diseñado por Rafael Sanzio en 1518. La muerte de este y los avatares políticos posteriores motivaron numerosos cambios en el plan inicial.[1]
Al fallecimiento de Clemente VII, la villa pasó a ser propiedad de su pariente Alejandro de Médicis, casado con una hija natural de Carlos V: Madama Margarita .
La planta representa una terma romana. Las termas conformaban un conjunto de piezas limitadas por un muro potente y rematado por torres circulares en los extremos.
Esta villa se organiza en torno a dos ejes muy marcados que se cruzan en el patio. En el eje transversal, el de acceso, pasa por la entrada del gran edificio, el patio y al final aparece un teatro. Siguiendo el eje longitudinal, se comienza por un patio organizado con muros a la romana. Luego este da paso a un gran graderío por el que se accede a la siguiente sala, menor, enmarcada por pilares y columnas; y luego, a partir de un acceso menor, se da paso a la sala central del edificio: el patio circular, articulado con columnas jónicas. Todo está ejecutado en ladrillo. Siguiendo con el eje, después del patio central se encuentra el salón de celebraciones, que se corresponde con lo que sería el tepidarium en las termas romanas. Este gran salón es rectangular y está articulado con tres grandes módulos: el central está cubierto con una cúpula, cubierta por fuera con un tejado; los módulos laterales se encuentran cubiertos con bóvedas de arista. En los ángulos de los cuadrados en planta aparecen los pilares de gran potencia sobre los que se desarrollan las bóvedas. Los lados menores del rectángulo y el lado contiguo del módulo que corresponde al cuadrado se desarrollan con exedras semicirculares. A su salida se encuentra el jardín renacentista obra de los tres arquitectos a quienes se les debe distintas partes del maravilloso jardín, bajo el cual no podía faltar la "gruta a ninfeo"
La fachada también es una réplica de las termas.
En cuanto a la decoración, las paredes de la villa interpretan estucos de gran calidad. En los colores de las pinturas predomina el azul de lapislázuli y el rojo pompeyano.
El proyecto original también contaba con construcciones de diversos usos en los laterales de la villa como un hipódromo y baños, aunque muchas cosas no llegan a construirse.
La villa Madama está muy influenciada por el ambiente interior del palacio de Nerón, la Domus Aurea. Es la más importante que se realiza en la Roma de este periodo y a partir de la cual saldrán otras muchas villas. Actualmente esta villa la usa el Ministerio de Exteriores como residencia de las visitas oficiales a Italia.
Villa Borghese may refer to:
The Villa Borghese Pinciana , the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio , developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection.
The Galleria Borghese which now occupies the above.
The Villa Borghese gardens, the gardens in which the above villa is sited
Any other villas held by the Borghese family
Villa Borghese a 1953 Italian film directed by Vittorio de Sica
Villa Aldobrandini, también conocida como Belvedere, es una villa italiana ubicada en la ciudad de Frascati, Provincia de Roma, propiedad de la familia Aldobrandini. Fue creada por orden del cardenal Pietro Aldobrandini, sobrino del Papa Clemente VIII. La villa fue erigida sobre un edificio preexistente, el cual había sido construido por Pier Antonio Contugi a mediados del siglo XVI.[1]
La villa fue reconstruida a su forma actual por Giacomo della Porta entre 1598 y 1602, siendo posteriormente completada por Carlo Maderno y Giovanni Fontana. Entre sus atractivos destaca el Teatro delle Acqua , creación de Carlo Maderno y Orazio Olivieri. Otras villas con estructuras similares son la Villa de Este en Tívoli y la Villa Torlonia en Frascati.
Dentro del palacio hay pinturas de artistas manieristas y barrocos como los hermanos Zuccari, Caballero de Arpino y Domenico Zampieri.
