The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is located on Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York. The current facility, designed by Kideney Architects and built in 1964, replaced the original Cyrus Eidlitz Buffalo Public Library Building dedicated in February 1887. The first Buffalo Public Library, in turn, replaced the Erie County, New York courthouse, which occupied the parcel from 1816-1876.Founded ca. 1835 as the Young Men's Association , prominent members included Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was the editor of the Buffalo Express from 1869-1871. The Young Men's Association was a private subscription library, meaning that paid membership was required in order to borrow books. In 1883, the Association began a fund-raising campaign for a new building and held an architectural competition, which culminated in Eidlitz's 1887 design. Upon completion, the Association turned over its collections to the citizens of Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Library was born, with no requirement for dues or membership.Significant library collections include the original, hand-written manuscript of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which Twain donated to the library in 1885; and the Milestones of Science, a collection of first editions announcing major advancements in Western science.
The Erewash Museum is a museum in the town of Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. The building that houses the museum is named the Dalby House after one of the families who inhabited it, and has served as a school and a private dwelling.
The museum opened in the 1980s, and focuses on the history of the Erewash area, with exhibits covering the Second World War, archaeology, and the Stanton Ironworks.
Gli eremiti camaldolesi di Monte Corona sono un istituto religioso maschile di diritto pontificio: i monaci di quest'ordine, detti coronesi, pospongono al loro nome la sigla E.C.M.C.
Erasmus Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher beginning his journals on Galapagos Islands, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.
He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.
He turned down an invitation of George III's to become a physician to the King.
Il Museo Eiteljorg degli Indiani americani e dell'arte western è ubicato nel centro di Indianapolis e ospita un'estesa collezione di arti visive dei popoli indigeni delle Americhe, nonché dipinti e sculture americane di genere western raccolte dall'uomo d'affari e filantropo Harrison Eiteljorg . Il museo ospita una delle più raffinate collezioni di arte nativa contemporanea del mondo.
The église Sainte-Madeleine is a neoclassical 18th century hall church in the Battant district of Besançon, France, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Antoine-Pierre II de Grammont, the archbishop of Besançon, had it built from 1746 to 1766 to plans by the architect Nicolas Nicole.
The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The museum opened on December 7, 1974 in McKnight Art Center, where it is still located today. It is best known for the large Venetian glass and marble mosaic by Joan Miró found on the facade of the building, titled Personnage Oiseaux, a 28-by-52-foot mural on 80 panels. It is also well known for the large Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection of 80 works across 330 acres, which was named Top Ten among campus sculptures in 2006 by Public Art Review. The sculpture collection includes works by Fernando Botero, Andy Goldsworthy, Lila Katzen, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Otterness, Auguste Rodin, Sophia Vari, Elyn Zimmerman, and Francisco Zuniga. The Outdoor Sculpture Collection is part of the museum's permanent collection, which contains approximately 6,500 objects. The full collection is searchable online through the Ulrich Museum Collection Portal. The museum's permanent collection includes works by Benny Andrews, Diane Arbus, Barkley Hendricks, Nan Goldin, Zhang Huan, Sol LeWitt, Joan Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others. The collection also contains large groups of works by a number of artists, including Lee Adler, Minna Wright Citron, Gordon Parks, Marian Stephenson Patmore, and Harry Sternberg.
Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum is a large Second World War-related museum near Malton in North Yorkshire in England.
It occupies a former Second World War prisoner-of-war camp of 33 huts. After the prisoners left, the camp was used for storage and then abandoned. Its grounds then became overgrown. As the museum was being set up, much clearing, as well as repair and renovation of the buildings, was required.
One of its buildings contains three human torpedoes and a "Sleeping Beauty" Motorised Submersible Canoe.The museum is also restoring a Super Sherman to its original working classic.
The museum also has a reproduction V1.
La basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, nel cuore della città di Lucera, è un esempio di architettura gotico-angioina. Eretta per volere di Carlo II d'Angiò e consacrata nel 1302, è la principale chiesa della città e anche la cattedrale della diocesi di Lucera-Troia. Fu dichiarata Monumento Nazionale nel 1874 e Santuario diocesano di Santa Maria Patrona nel 1955.
La cattedrale di San Zeno è il principale luogo di culto cattolico di Pistoia, sede vescovile dell'omonima diocesi.
Secondo la tradizione, inizialmente la cattedrale era intitolata a San Martino, fu sotto la dominazione longobarda che fu poi intitolata a San Zeno.
La cattedrale presenta una facciata in stile romanico sul modello di altre chiese presenti nella città costruite alla stessa epoca . Sulle due estremità della cuspide della facciata sono poste le due statue marmoree dei santi patroni, san Zeno e san Jacopo, un tempo collocate nel loggiato.
L'edificio, con campanile e battistero, ha interno a tre navate con presbiterio rialzato e cripta, ed è stato costruito probabilmente nel X secolo. Nel corso del tempo ha subìto diversi rimaneggiamenti ed è stato riportato alle forme primitive da un restauro avvenuto tra il 1952 e il 1966, completato nel 1999.
Nel dicembre del 1965 papa Paolo VI l'ha elevata alla dignità di basilica minore.
La cattedrale dei Santi Florido e Amanzio è il principale luogo di culto di Città di Castello, chiesa madre della diocesi omonima. Nel dicembre del 1888 papa Leone XIII l'ha elevata alla dignità di basilica minore.
La chiesa prepositurale e collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, più nota come duomo di Asolo, è il principale edificio religioso della città di Asolo.
È una parrocchiale prepositurale, nonché sede di un vicariato della diocesi di Treviso. Nel 1959 è stata ripristinata la sua condizione di collegiata, quindi è presente un capitolo formato dal prevosto e da alcuni canonici, sia titolari che onorari.
Dudmaston Hall is a 17th-century country house in the care of the National Trust in the Severn Valley, Shropshire, England.
Dudmaston Hall is located near the village of Quatt, a few miles south of the market town of Bridgnorth, just off the A442 road.
Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg was the head of the house of Waldburg-Wolfegg, military commander and the governor of Upper Palatinate for the Electorate of Bavaria. Today however he is mostly remembered as an art collector and for having founded the Wolfegger Kabinett.
At the end of the Thirty Years' War Swedish troops under general Wrangel laid fire to Maximilian Willibald's home Schloss Wolfegg in 1646. As he lacked the funds for an immediate repair, he moved to Amberg, where he accepted the job as a governor of Upper Palatinate.In 1648 Maximilian Willibald married for the second time. His new wife was the Belgian Countess Clara Isabella of Arenberg, who possessed a keen interest in art. Their wedding celebrations saw the performance of armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris by Bartholomäus Aich, which is considered to be one of the oldest German operatic compositions. Maximilian Willibald himself was well educated in the liberal arts and spoke aside from his native German French, Italian and Latin as well. A chronicle of the house of Waldburg-Wolfegg from 1785 describes him as a "great lover of the secret and natural sciences like medicine, chemistry and alchemy" who has a keen interest in "all witty writings, poems and similar things in all known languages".
From 1650 onwards Maximilian Willibald began to collect art systematically with a particular interest for graphics. He assembled a rather large collection over the years, in 1654 alone he acquired around 34,000 graphics from the inheritance of the Fugger family. At the time of his death his collection comprised over 120,000 graphics among them such famous pieces as the Kleiner Klebeband and the Mittelalterliches Hausbuch.In his will Maximilian Willibald ordained that his art collection was to kept as one and not to split over several heirs, therefore it remained virtually unchanged for the next 300 years. Also in his will he founded the Loreto Chapel in Wolfegg.
