The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur-industrialist Armand Hammer to house his personal art collection, the museum has since expanded its scope to become "the hippest and most culturally relevant institution in town." Particularly important among the museum's critically acclaimed exhibitions are presentations of both historically over-looked and emerging contemporary artists. The Hammer Museum also hosts over 300 programs throughout the year, from lectures, symposia, and readings to concerts and film screenings. As of February 2014, the museum's collections, exhibitions, and programs are completely free to all visitors.
El palacio Medici se encuentra en Florencia, en la Vía Larga, en la actualidad Vía Cavour 3. Realizado por Michelozzo di Bartolomeo en el año 1444, por encargo de Cosme de Médici «El viejo».
Planta renacentista, se trata de un patio en torno al que se disponen los dormitorios.
La tradición florentina está presente en el patio interior que es cuadrado y sobre todo en la utilización del esgrafiado, tomada del gótico, allí representa guirnaldas que sirven para unir una serie de tondos. Se forma de dos cuerpos, el inferior tiene una arcada sobre una serie de columnas de orden compuesto, mientras que el cuerpo superior es macizo, en él se abren una serie de vanos.
La fachada está dividida en tres pisos por medio del diferente tratamiento de los aparejos rústicos y el almohadillado de su muro. Hay una gradación de un sillar almohadillado en la parte inferior que evoluciona a un almohadillado mucho más suave y pulido en la parte superior. Cada piso se separa por medio de cornisas voladas.
Importante el dovelaje, dentro de este encontramos vanos bíforos, ello tomado de la antigüedad clásica.
La utilización del sillar almohadillado se utilizó como símbolo de riqueza y poder, ya que era muy costoso y difícil de hacer.
Construcción que sienta las bases para los palacios toscanos del Renacimiento, existen ejemplos muy similares como el palacio Rucellai o el palacio Pitti.
The Zorn Collections, or Zornsamlingarna, is a Swedish state museum, located in Mora, dedicated to preserving the works by painter Anders Zorn.
Anders Zorn was one of Sweden's internationally best known artists. His fame abroad was founded mainly on his portraiture, with his ability to capture the character and personality of the depicted person. His nude studies are also very famous, as are his genre pictures which mostly depict working people and in which his swift and elegant impressionistic technique found its fullest scope.
The Zorn Collections administers Anders and Emma Zorn's donation to the Swedish State. The Zorn Collections consists of four museums: Zorngården, Zorn Museum, Zorn's Gammelgård & Textilkammare and Zorn's Gopsmor.
York Museums Trust is the charity responsible for operating some key museums and galleries in York, England. The trust was founded in 2002 to run York's museums on behalf of the City of York Council. It has seen an increase in annual footfall of 254,000 to the venues since its foundation. In both 2016 and 2017 it saw its annual visitors numbers reach 500,000 people.
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates. The college also admits "mature" undergraduates , with around 15% of students studying undergraduate degree courses at the university. The college was founded in 1965 as "University College", but was refounded as Wolfson College in 1973 in recognition of the benefaction of the Wolfson Foundation. Wolfson is located to the south-west of Cambridge city centre, near the University Library.
As one of the more modern colleges in Cambridge, Wolfson does not follow all of the traditions of some of the university's older colleges. For example, since the college's founding there has been no "High Table" reserved for Fellows at Formal Hall dinners; students and Fellows mix and dine together, and the tradition of wearing academic gowns to such occasions is encouraged but is not compulsory. Both Fellows and students at the college have access to all the facilities. With students from over 70 countries, Wolfson claims to be one of Cambridge's most cosmopolitan colleges. It was the first college of the university to admit men and women as both students and Fellows.The current President of Wolfson College is scientist Jane Clarke.
Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres near Lake Champlain.
Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and an array of 17th- to 20th-century artifacts are on view. Shelburne is home to collections of 19th-century American folk art, quilts, 19th- and 20th-century decoys, and carriages.
Electra Havemeyer Webb was a pioneering collector of American folk art and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. The daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Elder Havemeyer, important collectors of Impressionism, European and Asian art, she exercised an independent eye and passion for art, artifacts, and architecture celebrating a distinctly American aesthetic.
When creating the museum, she took the step of collecting 18th and 19th century buildings from New England and New York in which to display the museum's holdings, relocating 20 historic structures to Shelburne. These include houses, barns, a meeting house, a one-room schoolhouse, a lighthouse, a jail, a general store, a covered bridge, and the 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga.
In Shelburne Mrs. Webb sought to create "an educational project, varied and alive." Shelburne's collections are exhibited in a village-like setting of historic New England architecture, accented by a landscape that includes over 400 lilacs, a circular formal garden, herb and heirloom vegetable gardens, and perennial gardens.
In 2013, the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education was opened with two galleries, an auditorium, and a classroom, transforming the institution from seasonal to year-round operation. While the main campus operates seasonally, the Pizzagalli Center and Museum Store are open year-round.
La basílica de Santa Maria del Popolo ? es una basílica menor de Roma, situada en la Piazza del Popolo, junto a una de las antiguas puertas de la ciudad. Pertenece desde 1250 a los agustinos.
La iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola es una iglesia barroca de Roma, construida en 1626 y dedicada a San Ignacio de Loyola, el fundador de la Compañía de Jesús.
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom. It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physicians' assistants , and practising critical care physicians. It also holds examinations for anaesthetists in training, publishes the British Journal of Anaesthesia, and informs and educates the public about anaesthesia. Its headquarters is in Churchill House, London.
La Iglesia de Todos los Santos [1] es un templo franciscano en Florencia, Italia.
Fundada a mediados del siglo XIII por la orden laica de los Umiliati, la iglesia se dedicó a todos los santos y mártires, conocidos y desconocidos.
Newnham College es un college para mujeres en la Universidad de Cambridge. Fue fundado en 1871 por Henry Sidgwick y fue el segundo college de Cambridge que admitió mujeres, siendo el primero el Girton.
The National War Museum is a museum located in Fort Saint Elmo in the city of Valletta, Malta. It is one of the most popular museums in Malta. From 1975 to 2014, its collection mainly focused on World War I and World War II. It was refurbished in 2015, and its collections now include exhibits ranging from the Bronze Age to 2004.
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus is the largest art museum in Belarus and is located in Minsk. The museum comprises more than thirty thousands works of art which make up twenty various collections and constitutes two main ones: the one of national art and the other of art monuments of various countries of the world.
The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, is the newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group having opened in 2011 replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life. National Museums Liverpool intention is for the new venue to tell the story of Liverpool and its people, and reflect the city’s global significance. The museum is housed in a new purpose-built building on the Mann Island site at the Pier Head.
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon is a local museum covering the history and culture of the North Devon area and which is located in The Square in Barnstaple in Devon. The displays range from prehistoric times to the Victorian era. The building and its garden railings beside the river front have been Grade II listed since 1988.
El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes es uno de los principales centros de difusión de las artes visuales en Chile. Fundado el 18 de septiembre de 1880 bajo el nombre de Museo Nacional de Pinturas, es el primer museo de arte en Latinoamérica.[3] Desde 1910 ocupa en Santiago Centro un edificio ubicado en el parque Forestal, el palacio de Bellas Artes, obra del arquitecto franco-chileno Emile Jéquier construido en conmemoración del centenario del país y declarado Monumento Histórico en 1976.[4][5]
El museo posee un patrimonio artístico compuesto por más de 3000 piezas, adquiridas por medio de compras, donaciones y premios de salones oficiales; tiene la principal selección de escultura chilena y la segunda de pintura nacional más completa del país después de la Casa del Arte o Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Concepción. Las obras abarcan la producción artística nacional desde la época colonial; además, conserva núcleos de arte universal, destacando sus colecciones de pinturas españolas, flamencas e italianas, su colección de kakemonos y grabados, sus colecciones de dibujos y fotografías, y un conjunto de esculturas africanas.[6]
Tiene una biblioteca especializada en artes visuales que cuenta con aproximadamente 100 000 volúmenes,[7] realiza exposiciones temporales e itinerantes, mantiene un programa educativo, con talleres, cursos y visitas guiadas, y produce material informativo.[4]
La Iglesia de Santa María del Carmine, en Florencia domina la plaza homónima, en el barrio de Oltrarno. Es famosa por albergar una de las obras maestras del arte renacentista: la capilla Brancacci, decorada por Masaccio y Masolino finalizando las labores Filippino Lippi.
