The Guildhall in Barnstaple in Devon in the United Kingdom is the Guildhall for the town and was completed in 1828, replacing an earlier Guildhall. Beneath and behind the Guildhall is the Pannier Market; completed in 1855, the building has been a Grade II* listed building since 19 January 1951.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton is an art museum located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The museum occupies a 7,000 square metres building on King Street West in downtown Hamilton, designed by Trevor P. Garwood-Jones. The museum relocated to the building in 1977, with renovations by Bruce Kuwabara later undertaken in 2005.
The museum was established as the Municipal Gallery of Hamilton in January 1914, and was opened to the public in June 1914, at a Hamilton Public Library building on Main Street West. The museum continued to operate from that location until 1953, when the museum relocated to a new building in the neighbourhood of Westdale. In 1977, the museum moved to its present King Street West location. The museum building was renovated with designs by Bruce Kuwabara from 2003 to 2005.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection has over 10,000 works by artists from Canada, and around the world. In addition to exhibiting works from its collection, the museum has also organized, and hosted a number of travelling exhibitions.
The Amsterdam Museum, until 2011 called the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, is a museum about the history of Amsterdam. Since 1975, it is located in the old city orphanage between Kalverstraat and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.
York Art Gallery in York, England is a public art gallery with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015. The building is a Grade II listed building. and is managed by York Museums Trust.
Weston Park Museum is a museum in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is one mile west of Sheffield city centre within Weston Park. It is Sheffield's largest museum and is housed in a Grade II* listed building and managed by Museums Sheffield. Until 2006 it was called Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery.
The Chambers Institution is home to the Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, a museum, library and art gallery at Peebles in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
The building is named after the publisher William Chambers who was one of the founders of what is now the Chambers Harrap publishing house.
Alternative names for the building are Dean's House or Queensberry Lodging. The Institution was formerly owned by the Dukes of Queensberry.
A window lintel bears the date '1668'.
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006.
The regiment was created under the Childers Reforms in 1881, as the Princess Louise's , by the amalgamation of the 91st Regiment of Foot and 93rd Regiment of Foot, amended the following year to reverse the order of the "Argyll" and "Sutherland" sub-titles. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was expanded to fifteen battalions during the First World War and nine during the Second World War . The 1st Battalion served in the 1st Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and gained a high public profile for its role in Aden during 1967.
As part of the restructuring of the British Army's infantry in 2006, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers , the Black Watch and the Highlanders into the seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland. Following a further round of defence cuts announced in July 2012 the 5th Battalion was reduced to a single public duties company called Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, .
The Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel represents a group of institutions in Kassel, Germany, comprising museums, associated research libraries, and supporting facilities. They are overseen by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal state of Hesse. The central complex of Schloss Wilhelmshöhe with installed art in the park and grounds was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2013.The museum locations are:
Shugborough Hall is a stately home near Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England.
The hall is situated on the edge of Cannock Chase, about 5.8 miles east of Stafford and 4.7 miles from Rugeley. The estate was owned by the Bishops of Lichfield until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, upon which it passed through several hands before being purchased in 1624 by William Anson, a local lawyer and ancestor of the Earls of Lichfield. The estate remained in the Anson family for three centuries. Following the death of the 4th Earl of Lichfield in 1960, the estate was allocated to the National Trust in lieu of death duties, and then immediately leased to Staffordshire County Council. Management of the estate was returned to the National Trust in 2016. It is open to the public and comprises the hall, museum, kitchen garden and a model farm.
The Sheldon Museum of Art is an art museum in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Its collection focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art.
La iglesia de San Zacarías es un edificio religioso de Venecia , situado a poca distancia de la Basílica de San Marcos en el sestiere de Castello, en el tranquilo Campo San Zaccaria. Pertenece a la diócesis del Patriarcado de Venecia.
Está dedicada al padre de San Juan Bautista, el sacerdote Zacarías, cuyo cuerpo supuestamente contiene.[1]
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital , is a large teaching hospital situated in Exeter, Devon, England. The hospital has two sites, situated in Wonford and Heavitree, Exeter, and is part of the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital is used for the clinical training of medical students from the University of Plymouth and the University of Exeter.
John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction.
Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including Bevis , a classic children's book, and After London , a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart . This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher and Round About a Great Estate , that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."
The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it one of the oldest art museums on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the 25 largest art museums in the US, at a total of 240,000 square feet , with more than 112,000 square feet of gallery space. The permanent collection has more than 42,000 works of art, and at least one major traveling exhibition is usually on show. The Portland Art Museum features a center for Native American art, a center for Northwest art, a center for modern and contemporary art, permanent exhibitions of Asian art, and an outdoor public sculpture garden. The Northwest Film Center is also a component of Portland Art Museum.
The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, with accreditation through 2024.
La Pinacoteca del Estado de São Paulo es una institución cultural brasileña dependiente de la Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de São Paulo. Su sede principal se encuentra en el Jardim da Luz, en la Ciudad de São Paulo. Además, ocupa también un espacio llamado Estación Pinacoteca, antigua sede del DOPS, y un edificio en el Parque do Ibirapuera.
Es uno de los más importantes museos de arte de Brasil y reúne en su acervo más de seis mil obras, entre pinturas, esculturas, collages, dibujos, tapices, vajilla y objetos de porcelana. La colección abarca la historia de la pintura brasileña entre los siglos XIX y XX
El Palacio Ducal de Mantua ?, que ocupa una gran parte de la porción nororiental de la ciudad de italiana de Mantua, es, desde el siglo XIV, la sede ciudadana de los Gonzaga. Se encuentra en la Piazza Sardello.
Más que un palacio ducal debe hablarse de una ciudad-palacio, puesto que el complejo arquitectónico está constituido por numerosos edificios unidos entre sí por corredores y galerías, con patios, y vastos jardines. Entre esos edificios está el castillo de san Jorge , fortaleza del siglo XIV y una basílica. La fachada es del siglo XV.
Ya antes de la llegada al poder de los Gonzaga estaban edificados los primeros núcleos del Palacio, aunque la historia del complejo se identifica sobre todo con la de la familia que gobernó la ciudad hasta 1707.
Durante el siglo XVI y principios del siguiente albergó una soberbia colección de pinturas, hasta que en 1627 el núcleo más valioso de ellas fue vendido a Carlos I de Inglaterra. El mismísimo Rubens se asombró del alcance de tal operación, que supuso un quebranto para el patrimonio artístico italiano pero se reveló providencial poco después, dado que las pinturas enviadas a Londres eludieron el saqueo que asoló Mantua en 1630.
Por desgracia el conjunto adquirido por el rey inglés se dispersó tras la ejecución del monarca en 1649, y hoy apenas subsiste en la Royal Collection la famosa serie Los triunfos del César de Andrea Mantegna. Otras pinturas cayeron en manos de Felipe IV de España y ahora se conservan en el Museo del Prado de Madrid; entre ellas, La muerte de la Virgen de Mantegna y la Sagrada Familia apodada La Perla de Rafael.
Entre otros rincones del palacio, celebérrima es la llamada Camera degli Sposi en el castillo de san Jorge, parte de la "ciudad-palacio". Estos frescos fueron realizados por Andrea Mantegna y dedicados a Ludovico III Gonzaga y su mujer Bárbara de Brandeburgo. Además, hay una serie de frescos de Pisanello sobre la leyenda artúrica y un retrato de la familia ducal, hecho por Rubens, en el Salone degli Arcieri.
Cuando Mantua se hizo austriaca, las restauraciones prosiguieron hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII por obra de los gobernadores enviados por el Emperador.
Los arquitectos más importantes que intervinieron en las obras de este soberbio conjunto fueron Giovanni Battista Bertani y Bernardino Facciotto.
