Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter , a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
The Filson Historical Society is a historical society located in the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The organization was founded in 1884 and named after early Kentucky explorer John Filson, who wrote The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke, which included one of the first maps of the state. The Filson's extensive collections focus on Kentucky, the Upper South, and the Ohio River Valley. Its research facilities include a manuscript collection as well as a library that includes rare books, periodicals, maps, and other published materials. The Filson also maintains a small museum. One distinctive possession of the museum is a section of American beech tree trunk, with the carved legend "D. Boon kilt a bar [killed a bear] 1803."
The Des Moines Art Center is an art museum with an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, modern art and mixed media. It was established in 1948 in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Dayton Art Institute is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Dayton Art Institute has been rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for children. The museum also ranks in the top 3% of all art museums in North America in 3 of 4 factors. In 2007, the art institute saw 303,834 visitors.
County Hall is a high-rise tower block in Aylesbury, in the county of Buckinghamshire in England. It was built to house the former Buckinghamshire County Council, and it remains the main office and the meeting place of Buckinghamshire Council. The block was designed by county architect Fred Pooley and completed in 1966.
La cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo e San Geminiano è il principale luogo di culto della città di Modena, chiesa madre dell'arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola.
Capolavoro dello stile romanico, la cattedrale è stata edificata dall'architetto Lanfranco nel sito del sepolcro di san Geminiano, patrono di Modena, dove in precedenza, a partire dal V secolo, erano state già erette due chiese. Nella cripta del duomo si trovano le reliquie del santo, conservate in una semplice urna del IV secolo ricoperta da una lastra di pietra e sorretta da colonne di spoglio. Il sarcofago, custodito entro una teca di cristallo, viene aperto ogni anno in occasione della festa del santo stesso e le spoglie del santo, rivestite degli abiti vescovili con accanto il pastorale, vengono esposte alla devozione dei fedeli.
A fianco della cattedrale sorge la torre campanaria detta la Ghirlandina.
Nell'aprile del 1934 papa Pio XI l'ha elevata alla dignità di basilica minore.Il Duomo di Modena, con la Torre Civica e la Piazza Grande della città, è stato inserito dal 1997 nella lista dei siti italiani patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO.
The Museum of Cambridge, formerly known as the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, is a museum located in Castle Street in central Cambridge, England. It is housed in eight rooms in the former White Horse Inn, a public house that closed in 1934. The museum presents the lives of the people of Cambridge and its surrounding area, the county of Cambridgeshire from 1700 onwards. The collection includes objects covering applied art, coins, costumes, decorative art, fine art, hobbies, law and order, medals, medicine, music, social history, textiles and toys.
The museum is supported by Cambridge City Council, the National Lottery, through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and two local organisations:
the Cambridge 800 Committee, a registered charity founded in 2006, whose aims are "to help ensure the future of the Cambridge and County Folk Museum so that it can be enjoyed by future generations, especially children".
the Friends of the Folk Museum, whose separate short term fund-raising provides specific items for the museum.The museum was shortlisted for the 2006 Gulbenkian Prize.
Calke Abbey è una storica residenza in stile barocco e neoclassico del villaggio inglese di Calke , nel Derbyshire), costruita tra il 1701 e il 1703 nel luogo in cui sorgeva un priorato agostiniano dell'XI secolo . Fu per oltre 200 anni la dimora di campagna della famiglia Harpur-Crewe. .
Il complesso è classificato come palazzo di primo grado ed è gestito dal National Trust. Il parco che circonda il palazzo è stato dichiarato riserva naturale.
Il Brasenose College, originariamente Brazen Nose College è uno dei collegi costituenti dell'Università di Oxford nel Regno Unito. Il suo palazzo si affaccia su Radcliffe Square e di fronte alla Radcliffe Camera nel centro di Oxford.
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, today has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Among other highlights, the Museum’s collection of Asian art is considered the finest and most comprehensive in the Southeast, and its Vietnamese ceramics one of the finest in the U.S. The Museum also is home to a remarkable Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the late 13th century to c.1750, and the 18th-century European decorative arts include superior examples of English ceramics and French furniture.
The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres in the heart of the city’s cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight and Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993. The facility encompasses 180,000 square feet , including an outdoor sculpture garden.
La basilica di Saint-Denis è un famoso edificio gotico, situato nell'omonimo comune della cintura di Parigi, in Francia. Dal 1966 è diventata cattedrale della diocesi di Saint-Denis. Anche se è universalmente conosciuta come la basilica di Saint-Denis, in realtà il tempio non ha il titolo di basilica minore concesso dal papa.
Rappresenta la prima opera assoluta dell'architettura gotica, dove il suo creatore, l'abate Sugerio, impiegò per la prima volta l'arco acuto e gli archi rampanti. Modello che poi si irradiò in tutta l'Europa medievale. È monumento storico di Francia dal 1862 e il 20 settembre 1996 l'UNESCO l'ha dichiarata Patrimonio culturale dell'Umanità.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts .As the main development agency for the arts it is responsible for the distribution of Exchequer and National Lottery Funding for the arts in Northern Ireland. The council is headquartered at 1 The Sidings, Antrim Road, Lisburn. Organisationally it is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Communities.
The following funding schemes are provided by the Arts Council to organisations in Northern Ireland. Programmes are open at specific times during the year and the programme availability is subject to change.
Music Touring
Small Grants Programme
Building Peace through the Arts - Re-Imaging Communities
Annual Funding Programme
Arts and Older People programme funding
Public Art Funding
Capacity Building
Intercultural Arts Programme funding
Project Funding
Musical Instruments for Bands
Equipment and Minor Refurbishments
The following funding programmes are open to individual artists at specific times during the calendar year. Dates are subject to change.
Travel Awards
Support for the Individual Artist programme
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest and largest regional art gallery in Australia. Established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by the citizens of Ballarat, both the building and part of its collection is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register
and by the National Trust of Victoria.
The gallery was the notable home of the original Eureka Flag and houses major collections covering the history of Australian art from the early colonial period to the present day.For the first five years of the gallery's life, the Association rented the large supper room of the Ballarat Academy of Music, now Her Majesty's Theatre, which was made available by Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet. The Association then worked to secure land on the site of the Government Camp and to raise funds for a permanent home for its collection. Much of the energy and the money came from a prominent Ballarat citizen, James Oddie. The current building is the oldest purpose built art gallery building in Australia.
Designed by Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy in the Renaissance Revival architecture style as a bluestone brick and render facade and stone stairway, the foundation stone was laid by Sir William Clarke in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The new building was opened by Alfred Deakin on Friday 13 June 1890.The gallery is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, of which the City of Ballarat is the sole shareholder. It is administered by a board of directors. Louise Tegart is the current Director.
The gallery is supported by the Art Gallery of Ballarat Foundation, which raises funds and receives donations on behalf of the gallery and by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Association, an independent organisation which established the gallery in 1884 and gave it to the Ballaarat City Council in 1972. Membership of the Association is open to members of the public and brings with it a range of benefits, including discounts at the gallery shop and cafe and invitations to exhibition openings.
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum è il principale museo d'arte di Aarhus, Danimarca. Fu inaugurato nell'aprile 2004 e nel 2011 sulla copertura venne installata la passerella Your rainbow panorama, opera di Olafur Eliasson.
Il museo è stato fondato nel 1859. L'8 aprile 2004 ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum ha aperto le sue mostre in un nuovissimo edificio moderno a 10 piani con una superficie totale di 20.700 m² e progettato dallo studio di architettura danese Schmidt Hammer Lassen.
ARoS è uno dei più grandi musei d'arte del nord Europa con un totale di 816.468 visitatori nel 2015.Oltre alle grandi gallerie con mostre permanenti e temporanee l'edificio ARoS ospita un negozio di arte, una caffetteria e un ristorante. Il complesso architettonico del museo è stato completato nel 2011, con l'aggiunta dello skywalk circolare di Ólafur Elíasson, rendendolo il secondo museo più visitato in Danimarca dopo il Louisiana Museum.
The American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection is a non-profit museum located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2010, it is the permanent home for The Anschutz Collection, a formerly private collection of paintings that surveys the art of the American West from the early 19th century to the present.
Villa Valmarana ai Nani è una villa veneta situata alle porte della città di Vicenza, sulle falde del colle di San Bastian, propaggine del vicino Monte Berico. La villa è celebre per lo straordinario ciclo di affreschi di Giambattista Tiepolo e del figlio Giandomenico.
Il nomignolo "ai Nani", con cui è conosciuta, per differenziarla dalle altre ville della stessa famiglia, è dovuto alle 17 sculture in pietra rappresentanti dei nani, un tempo sparsi nel parco, poi allineati sul muro di cinta.
La villa, pur essendo abitata dalla famiglia nobiliare dei Valmarana, è aperta al pubblico sei giorni alla settimana, al pari della vicina Villa Capra detta "La Rotonda" del Palladio, di proprietà di un altro ramo della famiglia Valmarana. Il viale di accesso alla villa si dirama infatti dalla strada per la Rotonda, distante poche centinaia di metri.
