The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the Society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors. The Society maintains the Category A listed Signet Library, part of the Parliament House complex in Edinburgh, and members of the Society are entitled to the postnominal letters WS.
For other hospitals named "Princess Royal" see Princess Royal Hospital.
The Princess Royal University Hospital or PRUH is a large acute district general hospital situated in Locksbottom, near Farnborough, in the London Borough of Bromley. It is managed by King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons . It is the manor house of the manor of Petworth. For centuries it was the southern home for the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland. Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection made by George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont , containing many works by his friend J. M. W. Turner. It also has an expansive deer park, landscaped by Capability Brown, which contains the largest herd of fallow deer in England.
Perth Museum and Art Gallery is the main museum and exhibition space in the city of Perth, Scotland. It is located in the Marshall Monument, named in memory of Thomas Hay Marshall, a former provost of Perth.
The Reinhart Collection formed by Oskar Reinhart is now held in a museum in his old house, "Am Römerholz" in Winterthur, Zurich Canton, Switzerland, as well as the Museum Oskar Reinhart in the centre of Winterthur. It belongs to the Swiss Confederation, Federal Office of Culture .
The collection owns paintings by artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eduard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Jean-François Millet, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Matthias Grünewald, Lukas Cranach, Vincent Van Gogh and Pieter Breughel the Elder .
The villa is building of 1915, designed by Maurice Turrettini.
François José Hyacinthe Rigaud foi pintor francês de origem espanhola, especializado em retratos. Foi o mais importante pintor de retratos na corte de Luís XIV da França, marcado pelo seu instinto de impressionante pose e grande apresentação para atender os desejos da realeza, embaixadores, clérigos e cortesãos que posaram para ele. Em 1682 foi galardoado com o Prix de Rome.
Pinturas de Rigaud capturado com grande precisão a semelhança das roupas e os detalhes do fundo, para que eles sejam um documento preciso moda da época. Sua pintura mais famosa é o retrato de Louis XIV de 1701, que se encontra no Louvre.
Para Jacques Thuillier, professor no Collège de France, "Hyacinthe Rigaud foi um dos pintores franceses que alcançou maior celebridade como um retrato sob o Antigo Regime. Ele mereceu a admiração de ambos a abundância surpreendente de seu trabalho e do seu constante aperfeiçoamento."
Rigaud é mais conhecido pela fidelidade da dinastia Bourbon, que pintou os retratos de quatro gerações. A essência de seus clientes ganhou em ambientes mais ricos, os burgueses, financiadores, nobres, industriais e ministros. Sua obra oferece uma galeria de retratos quase completa dos líderes do reino da França entre 1680 e 1740. No entanto, uma minoria de sua produção consiste em caracteres discretos: família, amigos, artistas ou meros comerciantes.
Inseparável de seu retrato de Louis XIV, Rigaud frequentado todos os grandes embaixadores do seu tempo e de alguns monarcas europeus. O número exato de pinturas deste artista permanece muito controverso, uma vez que seu catálogo é enorme, mas os especialistas concordam que teve mais de mil modelos diferentes. Esta situação é agravada pelo número elevado de cópias registradas no diário do artista, que também não menciona outras telas cem recuperada a partir da publicação em 1919.
Neto de pintores douradores de Roussillon, formados na alfaiataria de seu pai, Hyacinthe Rigaud Antoine, aperfeiçoou a arte em Montpellier desde 1671, antes de chegar a Lyon, quatro anos depois. Nessas duas cidades é onde familiarizado com pintura flamenga, holandesa e italiana, a de Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt e Ticiano, cujas obras vão coletar mais tarde.
De volta a Paris, em 1681, obteve o Prémio de Roma em 1682, mas, seguindo o conselho de Charles Le Brun, não viajar para Roma. Desde sua admissão para a Academia Real de Pintura e Escultura em 1700, dimensionar todas as qualidades desta instituição até sua renúncia em 1735.
De acordo com o escritor francês Louis Hourticq 'para morrer, Rigaud deixa uma grande galeria de personagens com os quais a nossa imaginação agora inunda o Salão dos Espelhos; Rigaud é necessário para a glória de Luís XIV e participa no brilho de um reino que documentados majestade. fotografias 'True', 'rostos Diderot descrito como "cartas de recomendação escritas em uma linguagem comum a todos os homens", Rigaud funciona agora preencher mais importantes museus do mundo.
No ano de 1709 foi feito nobre em sua cidade natal, Perpignan. Em 1727 ele foi nomeado Cavaleiro da Ordem de St. Michael. Rigaud morreu em Paris em 27 de dezembro de 1743.
The McCord Museum is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. The museum, whose full name is McCord Museum of Canadian History, is located next to McGill University, in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Kenwood House is a former stately home, in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath.
The house was originally constructed in the 17th century and served as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield through the 18th and 19th centuries. Part of the estate was bought by the Guinness family in the early 20th century, and the whole property and grounds came under ownership of the London County Council and was open to the public by the end of the 1920s. It remains a popular local tourist attraction.
The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery located in Accrington, Lancashire, northwest England, and is the home of the largest collection in Europe of Tiffany glass from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The museum, a Tudor-style house, was originally built in 1909 to be the home of William Haworth, a manufacturer of textiles. The house was designed by Walter Brierley , a York architect known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens". It was bequeathed to the people of Accrington in 1920, and stands in nine acres of parkland on the south side of Accrington Town Centre.
The Haworth's Tiffany collection is the largest outside the United States, with almost every type of Tiffany glass, including 140 pieces, including Favrile glass tiles, jewels, samples and mosaics. It was the gift of Joseph Briggs, a design apprentice who left Accrington at 17 to emigrate to the United States, where he worked for Tiffany for 40 years from about 1892. In 1933, he sent his Tiffany collection home.The collection is on permanent public display in four themed-rooms: 'Tiffany and Interior Design', 'Tiffany and the Past', 'Tiffany and Nature', and 'The Tiffany Phenomenon'. Notable in the Gallery's Tiffany collection are over 70 vases, including a group of 'Millefiore Paperweight' and 'Intaglio' or cut-glass examples, 'flowerform' vases, vases shaped like vegetables, 'Cypriote' and 'Tel-El-Amarna' vases inspired by Roman and Egyptian examples. There are also samples relating to decorative schemes Briggs was involved with, and his 'Sulphur-crested Cockatoos' mosaic.
The museum also has a collection of mainly 19th-century oil paintings and watercolours including works by Frederic, Lord Leighton, Claude Joseph Vernet, John Frederick Herring and others.
Skokloster é um palácio da Suécia, situado a 15 km a sul da cidade de Uppsala, junto ao lago Mälaren, localizado entre Estocolmo e Uppsala.
Foi construído entre 1654 e 1677 em estilo barroco por Carl Gustaf Wrangel, a partir de um projeto de Nicodemus Tessin, o Velho. Com a morte de Wrangel em 1676 o palácio passou para a família Brahe. Em 1930 tornou-se propriedade da família Von Essen, que o vendeu ao governo sueco em 1967 com todo o seu conteúdo. Desde então foi transformado em um museu.
O palácio é um dos grandes monumentos da fase de expansão da Suécia no século XVII. Algumas de suas salas estão inacabadas, como a sala de banquetes, que foi preservada ainda com as ferramentas dos construtores onde as deixaram por ocasião da morte do primeiro dono. Por isso, nenhum outro palácio europeu pode comparar-se a este em questão de autenticidade histórica. Outros aposentos foram decorados com suntuosa mobília e obras de arte barrocas. A armaria e a biblioteca são especialmente ricas.
Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, who arranged for the interior to be remodelled by John Carr . After the Viscount's death in 1772, the house was sold and subsequently passed through a number of local families before spending some time as a Gentleman's Club, a Building Society and a cinema. The property was bought by York Civic Trust in the 1980s and completely restored to its former grandeur. Fairfax House is now a museum open to the public and a Grade I listed building.
The Palazzo Loredan Cini is a Gothic-style palace located between the Palazzo Balbi Valier and the Rio San Vio on the Grand Canal, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy. The palace was formed from the amalgamation of the former Palazzo Foscari-Loredan with the adjacent Palazzo Grimani. The narrow facade on the Canal has no entrance, but the facade to the north on the Rio, has a single water door, and is connected to the adjacent campo by a bridge. The facade is decorated with two poliforas.
Westminster College in Cambridge is a theological college of the United Reformed Church, formerly the Presbyterian Church of England. Its principal purpose is training for the ordination of ministers, but is also used more widely for training within the denomination.
Bethlem Museum of the Mind is a museum focusing on the history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, its programme of care, and its patients. Opened in 2015, the museum is housed in an Art Deco building shared with the Bethlem Gallery, which hosts exhibitions of contemporary artists who are current or former patients.
The museum's displays include work by artists who have suffered from mental health problems, such as former patients William Kurelek, Richard Dadd and Louis Wain. Another work is a pair of statues by Caius Gabriel Cibber known as Raving and Melancholy Madness, from the gates of the 17th century Bethlem Hospital. Other displays illustrate the history of mental healthcare.
The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.
O Santuário da Santa Casa de Loreto é um lugar de peregrinação católico situado no município italiano de Loreto. É considerado o mais importante da Itália. Foi construído perto da casa onde, segundo a tradição medieval, o Arcanjo Gabriel anunciou à Virgem Maria a maternidade divina e onde viveu a Sagrada Família de Nazaré, casa essa miraculosamente transportada por anjos.
The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. The museum is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and its other collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world.
