Oxford Town Hall is a public building in St Aldate's Street in central Oxford, England. It is both the seat of Oxford City Council and a venue for public meetings, entertainment and other events. It is also includes the Museum of Oxford. Although Oxford is a city with its own charter, the building is referred to as the "Town Hall". It is Oxford's third seat of government to have stood on the same site. The present building, completed in 1897, is Grade II* listed.
Национальный музей женского искусства
Национальный музей женского искусства — художественный музей в столице США Вашингтоне; является единственным в мире музеем, в котором экспонируются произведения искусства, созданные исключительно женщинами.
The Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers is a museum of art located in a mansion, the "logis Barrault", place Saint-Éloi near the historic city of Angers.
Leeds General Infirmary, also known as the LGI, is a large teaching hospital based in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Its previous name The General Infirmary at Leeds is still sometimes used.The LGI is a specialist centre for a number of services, including the Major Trauma Centre and hand transplants. It also provides many general acute services like A&E, intensive care and high dependency units, maternity and state-of-the-art operating theatres.
Lancaster Town Hall is a municipal building in Dalton Square, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Кибл-колледж — один из колледжей Оксфордского университета. Основан в 1870 году. Один из крупнейших колледжей Оксфорда. В настоящее время здесь более 600 учащихся, из которых более 400 на бакалавриате. Кибл-колледж был основан в память Джона Кибла и с целью сделать оксфордское образование доступнее. С открытием колледжа в 1870 году его первыми студентами стали всего 13 человек, а три тьютора разделили между собой классику, теологию и историю. В 1876 году была открыта часовня.
The Joslyn Art Museum is the principal fine arts museum in the state of Nebraska, United States of America. Located in Omaha, it was opened in 1931 at the initiative of Sarah H. Joslyn in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn. It is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection, and although it includes works from Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Titian, among others, its greatest strengths are the outstanding art collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of American and European artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
The Hill of Tarvit is a 20th-century mansion house and gardens in Fife, Scotland. They were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and are today owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
High Life Highland is a regional organisation in Scotland, responsible for cultural and sports provision in the Highland Council Area. Its activities include running libraries, museums and leisure centres. It is a registered charity under Scottish law.High Life Highland was created by Highland Council as an "arms length" organisation responsible for developing and promoting opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and well-being across the region.In 2015 it was announced that Inverness Leisure would merge with High Life Highland, a process which was completed on 1 April 2016.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art. Its holdings include notable modern art works such as Richard Diebenkorn’s 1963 Ingleside. The museum has in its collection 5,000 works of art, including over 3,500 prints, drawings and photographs.
Doncaster Mansion House is a Grade I listed building in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is owned and managed by Doncaster Council, and the venue is used for civic and private functions, including tours, afternoon teas, wedding services, and official receptions. The Mansion House stands on the site of the Carmelite Friary, which had been established in Doncaster in 1350 and remained until its dissolution on 13 November 1538, after which the buildings were destroyed. During the 18th century, Doncaster's position on the Great North Road brought wealth to the town. The town's corporation was frequently called on to host entertainments, initially at the mayor's house or the Angel or Three Cranes inns. In 1719, they took a lease on a house in the High Street for holding feasts, but let this lapse around 1727. They bought a site on the High Street in 1738, with the intention of building a permanent base for entertaining, but little construction took place for several years. In 1746, James Paine was appointed as architect in 1746. Although young, Paine had already worked on Nostell Priory and had designed Heath House, both near Wakefield.Mansion Houses had already been constructed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , York and London. Whereas these other buildings contained both formal reception rooms and living quarters for the mayor, Doncaster's differed in being designed purely for entertainment, although some later mayors used space in the building as accommodation.Paine planned a building along the now established designs of Assembly Rooms. It was completed in 1748 and officially opened in 1749, the construction having cost £8,000. Paine was immediately offered more local work, starting with alterations to Cusworth Hall. He published his designs for the Mansion House in 1751. This work showed the building flanked by two other structures, marked as houses for the town clerk and recorder, but these were never part of the commission and were not built.William Lindley extended the building between 1801 and 1806, adding an attic storey, a rear banqueting hall and rear landing.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is an art museum within 17 acres of gardens, established in 1976, and located at 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The museum focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain. The museum also houses the Stout Collection of 18th-century German porcelain. With nearly 600 pieces of tableware and figures, it is one of the finest such collections in the United States. The Dixon also features a comprehensive schedule of original and traveling exhibitions of fine art and horticulture. The museum sits within four principal outdoor sculpture gardens with Greco-Roman sculpture. Its site was acquired by the Dixons in 1939, and landscaped in the English Garden style with open vistas adjacent to smaller, intimate formal spaces. The major areas within the gardens are the Cutting Garden, Formal Garden, South Lawn, and Woodland Gardens.
Divisions of the University of Oxford
The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes of the University of Oxford are organised into four divisions, each with its own Head and elected board. They are the Humanities Division; the Social Sciences Division; the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division; and the Medical Sciences Division.
Dartford Central Library and Museum is a library in the town centre of Dartford, Kent, England. The library was opened on 1 January 1916 by A. W. Smale, Chairman of the Dartford Urban District Council, and W. A. Ward, the Chairman of the Library Committee. Its first browsers were soldiers in World War I who were staying nearby in military hospitals, recovering from wounds received while serving in the trenches. Dartford Central Library was constructed with the aid of a grant from the philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Thomas E. Tiffin AMICE, the then-Dartford Urban District Council surveyor, and built in Bath by Messrs H. Friday and Sons and Ling, using Portland and York stone. In 1937 the library was expanded over what was once the Dartford tin works. During the Second World War its cupola dome served as an air raid watchpost. In 2016 the library had a major refit and internal access created between it and Dartford Museum. The library also opened the Peter Blake Gallery for the display of works by local artists.Today, Dartford Library is open weekdays from 08:30 to 18:00, except Thursday when it opens until 20:00, and Saturdays 09:00 to 17:00. It is run by Kent County Council.
Колледжата-ди-Санта-Мария-Ассунта или просто Дуомо в Сан-Джиминьяно — католическая коллегиальная церковь и малая базилика в городе Сан-Джиминьяно в Тоскане в центре Италии, находящаяся на соборной площади в сердце города. Церковь знаменита своими фресками, выполненными Доменико Гирландайо, Беноццо Гоццоли, Таддео ди Бартоло, Липпо Мемми и Бартоло ди Фреди. Базилика является частью Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО «Исторический центр Сан-Джиминьяно», включая и её фрески, названные ЮНЕСКО "работами выдающейся красоты".
Особняк Крайстчерч , также известный, как Уайтпол-хаус — здание I класса в городе Ипсуич в Англии, то есть здание, представляющее особый интерес. Особняк построен в XVI век. Большое кирпичное здание в тюдоровском стиле находится в Крайстчерч-парке в городе Ипсуич. В настоящее время особняк принадлежит городу. С 1895 года он является одним из двух зданий музея Ипсуича. В особняке хранятся коллекции изделий из керамики и стекла, располагается художественная галерея с картинами таких художников, как Джона Констебл и Томас Гейнсборо. Некоторые помещения здания сохранились в первоначальном виде, вместе с оригинальными предметами быта. Живописный парк вокруг особняка занимает площадь в двадцать восемь гектаров. Парк Крайстчерч был разбит приоратом Святой Троицы в Ипсуиче и простирался до средневековых городских стен. Во время Реформации при короле Генрихе VIII место было приобретено торговцем и авантюристом Полом Уайтполом, основавшим здесь поместье. После его смерти в 1547 году, поместье, известное, как Крайстчерч Уайтпол, отошло к его сыну Эдмунду Уайтполу, построившему здесь в 1548—1550 годах Уайтпол-хаус. Первоначальная кладка сохранилась на первом этаже и заметна со внешней стороны здания, в то время, как его интерьеры были изменены последующими владельцами. Сохранился также девиз дома на латыни, высеченный на камне в 1549 году: «Относитесь к нему бережно, чтобы не быть вам в рассеянии». Дочь строителя Уайтпол-хауса, Элизабет Уайтпол вышла замуж за Лестера Деверо, 6-го виконта Херефорда. Особняк перешёл во владение семьи Деверо, которая перестроила верхние этажи после пожара примерно в 1670 году. Тогда же было добавлено главное крыльцо. В 1734 году Клод Фоннеро купил особняк у Прайса Деверо, 10-го виконта Херефорда. Деверо-стрит за парком названа в честь этой семьи. В 1848 году владельцы особняка обустроили территорию вокруг него. В 1894 году особняк был куплен Феликсом Кобболдом у синдиката развития недвижимости, и тем самым здание было спасено от сноса. Кобболд, богатый местный предприниматель и филантроп, предложил передать его муниципальной корпорации Ипсуича для создания в нём музея и художественной галереи, и выделил ещё двадцать тысяч фунтов стерлингов на покупку для этого музея картин. Единственным условием филантропа было то, что муниципальная корпорация купит прилегающий к зданию парк для жителей Ипсуича. В феврале 1895 года особняк был передан городу, и в апреле 1895 года муниципальная корпорация Ипсуича приобрела центральную часть парка, а в 1928 году и верхний дендрарий, находившейся в общественном пользовании с 1848 года. Реставрация особняка, перед его открытием для общественности, была поручена архитектору Джону Шейуэллу Кордеру. Реконструкция здания в качестве музея была проведена Фрэнком Вулноу, куратором музея муниципальной корпорации Ипсуича, или музея Ипсуича, в 1893—1920 годах. При Вулноу, активном члене Ассоциации музеев и Клуба грубиянов, в особняке проводились ежегодные совещания различных обществ в образовательных целях. В это же время в нём выставлялась археологическая коллекция Нины Фрэнсис Лейард, над которой ей было доверено почетное кураторство. При кураторе Гае Мейнарде с 1920 по 1952 год собрания музея значительно пополнились предметами декоративного искусства и мебели. В 1927 году в особняке Крайстчерч прошла выставка, посвящённая двухсотлетию со дня рождения Томаса Гейнсборо, на которой также были выставлены картины кисти Джорджа Фроста и Джона Констебля. Собрания музея превратили его в культурный центр национального значения.
The Arkell Museum is a museum in Canajoharie, New York that has an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860–1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and of the Beech-Nut babyfood company. The Canajoharie Library was founded in 1924, and a gallery was added in 1927. The museum was originally built to house copies of European masterpieces and original 19th-century American paintings collected by Bartlett Arkell, then the town's leading industrialist. Susan Finch has written of the museum, "The institution has evolved into more than just an art gallery with a library attached, but an art gallery with a small town attached. The roster of American painters exhibited here is astounding and completely out of scale with what you would expect from a Thruway exit between Albany and Utica."Arkell acquired and donated some of the finest American paintings he came across. He incorporated several elements from different art museums that he visited in Europe and the United States into this museum. These were the European paintings Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Prince George Gallery at the Walker Art Museum in Liverpool, England and the gallery that housed The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Many of the paintings on display reflect Arkell's personal taste. Growing up in Canajoharie, landscapes of rural New York State and the Mohawk River are what Arkell found intriguing as well as familiar as they can be seen hanging on the museum walls The permanent collection includes twenty-one paintings by Winslow Homer, works by all members of The Eight, and paintings by leading American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam. George Inness and Ralph Blakelock are also well represented by several works in this impressive collection. American paintings from the 20th century include realist and regionalist works by Paul Sample, Ogden Pleissner and Thomas Hart Benton. This decorative arts collection derived from Arkell's desire to acquire objects of good taste such as furniture, sculpture, glass and pottery to place in the museum and library.
Butler Institute of American Art
The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919. Dedicated in 1919, the original structure is a McKim, Mead and White architectural masterpiece listed on the National Register of Historic Places .Among the most celebrated works in the Butler's permanent collection is Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip, a famed tribute to the era of the one-room schoolhouse. Winslow; however, painted two versions of Snap the Whip, with the other version residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The two paintings differ, with the Butler's version of Snap the Whip having mountains in the background, while the Metropolitan's does not. In 2007, the museum acquired the Norman Rockwell painting Lincoln the Railsplitter for $1.6 million. The previous owner of the 84.5 by 44.5 inch painting was businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot. Other aspects of the nation's past are captured in a unique collection of paintings featuring southwestern Native Americans, which were once part of Joseph Butler's personal collection. Additional highlights include an iconic depiction of George Washington's wedding, William Gropper's celebrated Youngstown Strike, an interpretation of the area's violent 1937 Little Steel Strike, and Albert Bierstadt's The Oregon Trail, 1869. Meanwhile, the gallery of modern art features a striking, life-sized painting by Alfred Leslie titled, Americans: Youngstown, Ohio, which depicts personalities connected with the Butler as they appeared in the 1970s. The museum also holds a significant collection of works by the Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. In recent years, the Butler has expanded significantly. A 19,000-square-foot south wing, the Beecher Center, was constructed in conjunction with Youngstown State University in 2000 with a focus of uniting technology and art. Two years later, the 3,400-square-foot Andrews Pavilion, featuring a sculpture atrium, gift shop, and café, was added to the rear of the facility. In 2006, the Butler purchased the neighboring First Christian Church facility and converted it into an education and performing arts center. In October 2007, the museum had its first auction in fifteen years. Pieces of art were donated from around the country and up to 125 art enthusiasts and museum supporters gathered to view and buy the pieces of art. All of the money raised from the auction went to the hiring of scholars to produce an updated catalog of all the pieces of art in the museum and its cost of publication.
