Hastings Fishermen's Museum is a museum dedicated to the fishing industry and maritime history of Hastings, a seaside town in East Sussex, England. It is housed in a former church, officially known as St Nicholas' Church and locally as The Fishermen's Church, which served the town's fishing community for nearly 100 years from 1854. After wartime damage, occupation by the military and subsequent disuse, the building was leased from the local council by a preservation society, which modified it and established a museum in it. It opened in 1956 and is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the town and borough of Hastings. The building, a simple Gothic Revival-style stone chapel, has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.
Ham House é um palácio situado ao lado do rio Tâmisa em Ham, ao sul de Richmond, em Londres, na Inglaterra. É reivindicado pelo National Trust como o "único na Europa com a sobrevivência mais completa de moda e de poder do século XVII."
Goodenough College is a postgraduate residence and educational trust in Mecklenburgh Square in Bloomsbury, central London, England. Other names under which the college has been known are London House, William Goodenough House, and the London Goodenough Trust.
The Staatliches Museum Schwerin is an art gallery and museum in Schwerin in Germany. It was established by Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1882 its historicist Haupthaus as the Staatsgalerie next to the Staatstheater. Its other locations are opposite the Schweriner Schloss and in the former residences at Schloss Güstrow and Schloss Ludwigslust.
The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut centered on the home of Florence Griswold , which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony, the main center of American Impressionism. The museum is noted for its collection of American Impressionist paintings. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993.
Dover Publications é uma editora norteamericana fundada em 1941. Publica principalmente livros que não se publicam mais por seus editores originais; portanto, ainda que nem sempre, livros de domínio público. Muitos destes livros são de particular interesse histórico ou de alta qualidade. A política da Dover do "econômico e durável", significa que seus livros são vendidos a baixo custo.
É muito conhecida por suas reimpressões de clássicos da literatura, música clássica e de imagens de domínio público do século XIX. Também tem publicado uma ampla coleção de textos de matemática, ciências e engenharia assim como numerosos livros de interesse como história da ciência ou história do desenho de móveis e trabalho em madeira.
O'Reilly Media, a editora de livros de computação, usa a linha de arte do catálogo da Dover para as ilustrações de seus livros.
The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations. The Director General of the Defence Academy is Air Marshal Edward Stringer, a senior Royal Air Force officer.
The Davis Museum in Wellesley, Massachusetts is located on the Wellesley College campus. The college art collection was first displayed in the Farnsworth Art Building, founded in 1889. The museum in its present form opened in 1993 in a building designed by Rafael Moneo.The permanent collection of about 11,000 objects ranges from antiquity to the present day.
The artists represented in the collection include Jacopo Sansovino, Pinturicchio, Hiroshige, Giorgio Vasari, Lavinia Fontana, Angelica Kauffmann, Ammi Phillips, John Singleton Copley, George Inness, Paul Cézanne, Georg Kolbe, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Al Held, Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt as well as works by Giacomo Manzù and Alberto Diego Giacometti. A large, recently restored mosaic from Antioch, excavated in a joint expedition with the Worcester Art Museum, is also present.
Taus Makhacheva is a Russian artist based in Moscow. She is the granddaughter of Rasul Gamzatov – Avar poet, author, journalist and political activist. Taus Makhacheva included in the list of the Best contemporary Russian artists , and also in the Russian Investment Art Rating 49ART.
The Museum Georg Schäfer is a German art museum in Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany. Based on the private art collection of German industrialist Georg Schäfer , the museum primarily collects 19th-century paintings by artists from German-speaking countries.
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892. There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying the house itself, which is a Grade II listed building. Entrance to the museum is free of charge.
Santa Maria delle Grazie é uma igreja e convento dominicano em Milão, norte da Itália, incluído na lista dos Patrimônios Mundiais pela UNESCO.
A igreja é famosa pela pintura da A Última Ceia de Leonardo da Vinci , que foi pintada na parede do refeitório do convento. Diferente do que se pensa A Última Ceia, não foi pintada pela técnica de afresco, deve-se a isso seu atual estado bem desgastado pelo tempo. A pintura também sofreu várias restaurações.
O Mosteiro de Pavia (em italiano: Certosa di Pavia é um mosteiro de Cartuxos, situado na comuna a quem deu o nome, Certosa di Pavia, em Pavia, na Lombardia, Itália.
Fundado em 1396 pelo primeiro duque de Milão Gian Galeazzo Visconti, este enorme complexo edificado para celebrar o seu prestígio, foi muito criticada quando visitada em 1506 por Erasmo de Roterdão.
Com a morte do duque os trabalhos foram interrompidos entre 1402 e 1412, e só retomam com a subida ao poder de Philippe Marie Visconti, continuando a renovar-se até 1782 .
Durante todo esse tempo pôde ser constantemente enriquecido constituindo um testemunho histórico da lombardia, fruto de uma abertura a outros artistas e trabalhos de outros centros italianos como o demonstra a rica ornamentação dos dois claustros, assim como a construção da igreja terminada em 1473, quando se iniciou a decoração da fachada com mármore, o que demorou mais de um século e inúmeras alterações do projecto .
A Catedral de Toledo, na cidade de Toledo, Espanha, é uma das três catedrais góticas espanholas do século XIII, sede da Arquidiocese de Toledo, sendo considerada a obra magna desse estilo no país. Foi construída de 1226 a 1493 e foi projetada a partir da Catedral de Bourges. Combina também algumas características do estilo mudéjar, principalmente no claustro. Foi construída com pedras de Olihuelas, perto de Toledo. Uma de suas partes mais magníficas é o altar Barroco chamado El Transparente, construído por Narciso Tomé. O banho de luz que vem de uma apropriada fenda no teto, faz com que o altar, por alguns minutos, pareça estar se elevando aos céus, o que originou seu apelido. A Catedral têm também mais de 750 vitrais.
A principal fachada tem três portas: a Puerta del Perdón, a Puerta del Juicio Final e a Puerta del Infierno. A primeira tem esse nome porque costumava-se garantir as indulgências para aqueles que por ela entravam para pedir perdão. Hoje é aberta somente em ocasiões especiais. A terceira contém apenas decorações florais. Era usada para a procissão do Domingo de Ramos.
O rei de Portugal D. Sancho II está sepultado na Catedral de Toledo.
Artizon Museum, until 2018 Bridgestone Museum of Art , is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan.The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro . The museum's collections include Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and twentieth-century art by Japanese, European and American artists, as well as ceramic works from Ancient Greece. The museum was located in the headquarters of the Bridgestone Corporation in Chūō, Tokyo.
The Albany Institute of History & Art is a museum in Albany, New York, United States, "dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art, and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley region". It is located on Washington Avenue in downtown Albany. Founded in 1791, it is among the oldest museums in the United States.Several other institutions have merged over time to become today's Albany Institute. The earliest were learned societies devoted to the natural sciences, and for a time it was the state legislature's informal advisory body on agriculture. Robert R. Livingston was the first president. Joseph Henry delivered his first paper on electromagnetism to the Institute. Its collections of animal, vegetable and mineral specimens from state surveys eventually became the foundations of the New York State Museum. Later in the century it became more focused on the humanities, and eventually merged with the Albany Historical and Art Society. It has had its present name since 1926. Over the course of the 20th century it has become more firmly established as a regional art museum.
The institute's three-building complex includes the late 19th-century Rice Building, the only freestanding Beaux-Arts mansion in the city, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and donated to the institute by one of its former benefactors. Its main building is a 1920s Classical Revival structure designed by local architect Marcus T. Reynolds. A more modern glass structure connects the two. The original two buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. At the beginning of the 21st century, the institute completed an extensive renovation in which the entrance building was constructed and new climate-controlled storage space for the collections was built.
