旧国立美術館(きゅうこくりつびじゅつかん、独: Alte Nationalgalerie)は、ドイツ、ベルリンのムゼウムスインゼル(博物館島)にある美術館。ベルリン国立博物館群を構成する美術館の一つで、ドイツのナショナル・ギャラリーを構成する一部でもあり、古典主義、ロマン主義、ビーダーマイヤー様式、印象派、初期モダニズムの絵画を所蔵している。1999年には博物館島のその他の歴史的建造物とともに、ユネスコの世界遺産に登録された。
サン・ピエトロ大聖堂(サンピエトロだいせいどう、イタリア語:Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano)は、バチカン市国南東端にあるカトリック教会の総本山。サン・ピエトロは「聖ペテロ」の意で、キリスト教の使徒聖ペテロのイタリア語であるサン・ピエトロに由来する。セントピーター寺院、聖ペテロ大聖堂などと表記されることもある。
カトリック教会の伝承によれば、サン・ピエトロ大聖堂はもともと使徒ペトロの墓所を祀る聖堂とされ、キリスト教の教会建築としては世界最大級の大きさを誇る。床面積2万3,000m2。北に隣接してローマ教皇の住むバチカン宮殿、バチカン美術館などがあり、国全体が『バチカン市国』としてユネスコの世界遺産(文化遺産)に登録されている。
The Smith College Museum of Art , connected with the well-known Smith College, is a prominent art museum in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is considered to be one of the most impressive college museums in the country. The museum is best known for its compilation of American and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Edgar Degas, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent and others. First established in 1879, the collection has expanded to include nearly 25,000 works of art, including a diverse collection of non-Western art. It is also a member of the Museums10 collective, a consortium of art, science, and history museums in Western Massachusetts. The SCMA serves as an important cultural and educational resource for the communities of Smith College, the Five College Consortium, and the town of Northampton.
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, or mima, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday 27 January 2007; since 2014 it has been run by Teesside University.
St George's Hospital is a teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. It is run by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It shares its main hospital site in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, with St George's, University of London which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research.
The hospital has around 1,300 beds and most general tertiary care such as accident and emergency, maternity services and care for older people and children. However, as a major acute hospital, St George's Hospital also offers specialist care for the more complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It is also home to one of four major trauma centres and one of eight hyper-acute stroke units for London.
St George's Hospital also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in the South East of England, for specialities such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide endoscopy training service.
王立音楽院(えいこくおうりつおんがくいん)または王立音楽アカデミー(おうりつおんがくアカデミー、英語:Royal Academy of Music)は、ロンドンに所在する、世界有数の音楽学校の一つである。略称はRAM(アカデミー)。王立音楽大学(Royal College of Music, RCM)と混同されやすいが、この2つは別組織であり、注意しなければならない。王立音楽院は、イギリス最大の総合大学であるロンドン大学の正会員となっている。現在の院長は、ジョナサン・フリーマン=アトウッドが務めている。
ヒューストン美術館(英語: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston、略称 MFAH)は、アメリカ合衆国テキサス州ヒューストンにある、全米屈指の規模の美術館である。美術館の収蔵品は60,000点近くにのぼり、世界各国の6,000年前から現代に至る様々な作品を収集している。
美術館は展覧会などのプログラムや出版などを通じてヒューストンの社会に恩恵を与えており、展覧会、ワークショップ、リソース・センターなどを訪れる客は年間125万人に及ぶ。また美術館の館外活動には50万人以上が参加する。
The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-Octeville with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.
The Brigham Young University Museum of Art, located in Provo, Utah, United States is the university's primary art museum and is one of the best attended university-campus art museums in the United States. The museum, which had been discussed for more than fifty years, opened in a 10,000-square-foot space in October 1993 with a large exhibit on the Etruscans. The museum is an integral part of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications and provides opportunities for students across the college and the university's campus.
The Diocesan Museum in Cortona is an art museum in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy. Located on the former site of the local Church of Gesù, it houses works of art by artists such as Fra Angelico, Pietro Lorenzetti, Bartolomeo della Gatta, Luca Signorelli and Sassetta. The oldest item in the museum is a marble Roman sarcophagus , depicting depicts the battle of Dionysus.
A room in the museum is specifically dedicated to the works of Luca Signorelli and his workshop, and emphasizes the bond between Signorelli and his hometown, and correspond to the artist's last years of work, from 1512 to 1523, the year of his death. Ten of the works bear the personal signature of Signorelli, the others are assumed to be from his workshop.The large tempera on panel depiction of the Lamentation of Christ, which used to be in the church of S. Margaret of Cortona, was called "a rare form of art" by Giorgio Vasari. The predella, on which Girolamo Genga may have also worked displays scenes of the Passion such as of the Last Supper, Agony in the Garden, and the Flagellation of Christ. The Communion of the Apostles, by Signorelli, was painted for the high altar of the Church of Gesù, and has an unusual iconography in which the apostles are gathered around a table at the Last Supper, in a semicircle, standing or kneeling and around the figure of Christ. Only Judas, concealing his 30 pieces of silver faces the viewer, his glance revealing the inner struggle of betrayal. Another work attributed to Signorelli, or his workshop, is the 1519–1520 Assumption of the Virgin from the Cathedral of Cortona.Other major art in the museum include:
The Cortona Triptych by Fra Angelico
Madonna and Child by Niccolò di Segna
A large cross painted by Pietro Lorenzetti
Maestà by Pietro Lorenzetti
Triptych of the Madonna of Humility with Saints by Sassetta
Assumption by Bartolomeo della Gatta
Ecstasy of St. Margaret of Cortona by Giuseppe Maria Crespi