The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is an art museum in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1877, its collection includes works by Aelbrecht Bouts, Joos van Cleve, Anthony van Dyck, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann.
Il castello di Sudeley è situato vicino a Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, Inghilterra. Risale al decimo secolo, ma la parte abitata è principalmente elisabettiana. Il castello ha un gran giardino, che è progettato e mantenuto su standard elevati. La cappella, St Mary's Sudeley, è il luogo in cui è stata sepolta la regina Caterina Parr , la sesta moglie di Enrico VIII, e contiene la sua tomba marmorea. Diversamente dal resto delle cappelle dei castelli, St Mary's Sudeley è parte della locale parrocchia della Chiesa anglicana.
Il castello fu principalmente costruito nel 1441 da Ralph Boteler, a cui venne confiscato da Edoardo IV. Edoardo donò Sudeley Castle a suo fratello, che in seguito divenne re Riccardo III d'Inghilterra, il quale lo diede a suo zio Gaspare Tudor, Duca di Bedford.
Quando Enrico VIII salì al trono, il castello divenne di nuovo proprietà della Corona. Era stato visitato da Enrico nel 1535, con la sua seconda moglie Anna Bolena, ma rimase vuoto e in disuso per qualche tempo. Quando Enrico morì il castello divenne proprietà di suo figlio, Edoardo VI, che lo diede a suo zio Thomas Seymour. Thomas venne fatto Lord di Sudeley e sposò Caterina Parr, vedova di Enrico VIII e matrigna di Edoardo VI. In questo periodo Thomas cominciò a sistemare il castello per gli usi di Caterina, ma solo una delle stanze che costruì esiste tuttora.
Seymour e Caterina traslocarono nel castello e portarono con loro dame di compagnia per la regina vedova, ed altri gentiluomini. Allora il castello ospitava più di cento persone. Un'altra famosa figura che venne ad abitare al castello fu Lady Jane Grey, che era una protetta di Seymour, come anche la giovane Elisabetta I d'Inghilterra.
Stroud District Council is the local authority for Stroud District. Stroud District is located in Central Gloucestershire in the South West of England region. The Council itself is based in the Council Offices in Stroud proper, but the borough also comprises Nailsworth, Dursley, Cam, and Wotton-under-Edge as well as a number of other settlements. It is administratively distinct from Stroud Town Council, which serves the smaller parish of Stroud only.Stroud District Council elects 51 Councillors from 27 wards. Following the May 2016 local elections and defections of 2 Labour Councillors , a member of the Conservative Group has resigned from Conservatives and now sits as an independent Stroud District Council comprises 21 Conservative Councillors, 16 Labour Councillors, 10 Green and Independent Councillors, 2 Liberal Democrat Councillors, 1 Independent and 1 Independent Councillor.
The Museum Insel Hombroich , Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is both a park and a museum combining architecture, art and nature on over 62 acres of meadowland. The park includes the "Kirkeby-Feld" and the "Raketenstation" , a disused NATO missile base. The museum located on the Museum Island is called "Museum Insel Hombroich". It presents both antique art from Asia and modern art. The Museum and the grounds around it are part of the "Stiftung Insel Hombroich", which was founded in 1996.
The inception of the Museum Insel Hombroich occurred in 1982 when real estate agent and art collector Karl Heinrich Müller purchased Rosa Haus , an overgrown industrialist's villa with garden, which was built in 1816. Müller's intention was to support local artists and architects. Landscape architect Bernhard Korte, who was commissioned to redesign the park, restored the old gardens and created minimalist landscapes. From 1982 to 1994 sculptor Erwin Heerich created eleven exhibition pavilions, which Müller called "chapels in the landscape". Heerich's elemental sculptures became the design base for these gallery pavilions.
The buildings include artworks from the collection of Karl Heinrich Müller, among them works by Hans Arp, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Eduardo Chillida, Lovis Corinth, Jean Fautrier, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Rembrandt, Kurt Schwitters, and works from early China.
Artists retired from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf took up residence on the Museum Island, among them Anatol, who set up his studio in a former barn, and the late Gotthard Graubner.
Between 1995 and 2009, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has been working on an architecture museum on Hombroich island, completed in collaboration with Rudolf Finsterwalder.In 2015, the Danish-Icelandic artist Ólafur Elíasson exhibited some 40 of his works from the Boros Collection in the rooms of the Langen Foundation.
The Swedish History Museum is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with preserving Swedish historical items as well as making knowledge about history available to the public.
The origin of the museum is the collections of art and historical objects gathered by Swedish monarchs since the 16th century. It has a number of permanent exhibitions and annually hosts special exhibitions tied to current events.
The State Library Victoria is the main library of the Australian state of Victoria. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. It is also Australia's busiest library and, as of 2018, the fourth most-visited library in the world.The library's vast collection includes over two million books and 350,000 photographs, manuscripts, maps and newspapers, with a special focus on material from Victoria, including the diaries of the city's founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, the folios of Captain James Cook, and the armour of Ned Kelly. The library is located in the northern centre of the central business district, on the block bounded by Swanston, La Trobe, Russell, and Little Lonsdale streets.
Il Campidoglio di Richmond, o Virginia State Capitol, è la sede governativa dello Stato della Virginia, negli Stati Uniti d'America.
Fu costruito su progetto di Thomas Jefferson, architetto e Presidente degli Stati Uniti, a partire dal 1785.
Si tratta del più antico edificio governativo della Nazione, realizzato pochi anni dopo la dichiarazione di indipendenza del 1776.
L'edificio, ampliato nel 1904 con l'aggiunta di un'ulteriore ala, oscilla fra il candore palladiano e la severità neoclassica, con un profondo portico architravato costituito da colonne di ordine ionico.
The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, houses one of the nation's most significant collections of American Western art. The Western Art collection conveys the artistic interpretation of the western region over two centuries.
It spans the explorations of the nineteenth century to the artistic colonies of the twentieth century. Among the many artists represented are John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The Stark Museum of Art presents special changing exhibitions to explore themes in greater depth and with new approaches.
The Decorative Arts collection features natural and historical themes in glass and porcelain. Highlights include the only complete set of The United States in Crystal from Steuben Glass, as well as the entire series of porcelain birds by Dorothy Doughty.
The American Indian collection consists of art created by members of the tribes of the Great Plains, Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, and Northwest Coast. It includes examples of Plains clothing, body ornaments, beadwork, baskets, pottery, kachina carvings, and Navajo rugs and blankets.
The Rare Books and Manuscripts collection enhances the Museum’s holdings in Western American art and in natural history subjects. Treasures include letters and manuscript journals by artists such as John James Audubon, Paul Kane, and Charles Marion Russell. The collection also holds first-edition publications on natural history, such as Audubon’s personal copy of The Birds of America.
The Stark Museum of Art provides educational resources and programs for the general public and for students, teachers, and researchers. It invites families to explore the Museum with their children and discover interactive activities.
The Stark Museum of Art offers guided tours for school groups and other groups of 10-72 persons by advance appointment.
The Stark Museum of Art is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a non-profit organization.
Il Palazzo d'Inverno del Principe Eugenio , è un grande palazzo nobiliare che sorge nel centro storico di Vienna, in Austria, nei pressi del Duomo di Santo Stefano.
Era la residenza cittadina, invernale, del principe Eugenio di Savoia, in alternanza con quella, estiva, del Belvedere. Rappresenta uno dei più bei palazzi di Vienna e un capolavoro dell'architettura barocca austriaca.
The August Horch Museum Zwickau is an automobile museum in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. Opened in 2004, it covers the history of automobile construction in Zwickau, the home of Horch and Audi prior to World War II, and Trabant during the Cold War-era German Democratic Republic.The museum is housed within the former factory where August Horch established Audi Automobilwerke GmbH in 1910. Its owner and operator is a non-profit making company owned in equal shares by Audi AG and the town of Zwickau.
