Dr Johnson's House is a writer's house museum in London in the former home of the 18th-century English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. The house is a Grade I listed building.
Le Musée historique allemand est un musée créé en 1987 à Berlin-Ouest par la République fédérale d’Allemagne et consacré à l’histoire de l’Allemagne. C’est l’un des musées les plus visités de Berlin. Il est installé à l'extrémité orientale de l’avenue Unter den Linden, no 2, face au palais du Kronprinz et de la Alte Kommandantur.
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum located in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1961 after the death of Ninah Cummer, who bequeathed her gardens and personal art collection to the new museum. The Cummer Museum has since expanded to include the property owned by Ninah's brother-in-law, but it still includes her original garden designs and a portion of her home with its historic furnishing. The museum and gardens attract 130,000 visitors annually.
The permanent collection of the museum currently includes over 5,000 works of art dating from 2100 BCE to the twenty-first century. The museum's collection is especially strong in European and American paintings and also includes substantial holdings of Meissen porcelain. The museum also has an award-winning education center, Art Connections, which possesses a number of interactive educational installations and serves underprivileged and special education students with its programs.
There are three flower gardens on the museum grounds, the oldest dating back to 1903. These gardens have preserved their original layout for over a century and were designed by landscape designers such as the Olmsted Brothers, Thomas Meehan & Sons, and Ellen Biddle Shipman. The Cummer Gardens are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Clandon Park House is an early 18th-century grade I listed Palladian mansion in West Clandon, near Guildford in Surrey.It stands in the south east corner of Clandon Park, a 220-hectare agricultural parkland estate which has been the seat of the Earls of Onslow for over two centuries. The house and gardens were given to the National Trust in 1956, but the park remains in private ownership. Some of the house's contents have also been acquired by the Trust in lieu of estate duty.Construction of the house, designed by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni, began about 1730, and the interiors were finished by continental sculptors and plasterers in the 1740s. It replaced an Elizabethan house. The park was landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in 1781, and there are two formal gardens on either side of the house. Nearby is a Māori meeting house, one of only four outside New Zealand, that was brought to England in the late 19th century. After being transferred to the National Trust, the house underwent restoration before it was opened to the public, and later became a wedding venue and filming location for period dramas.
The house was badly damaged by fire in April 2015, probably caused by an electrical fault in the basement, leaving it "essentially a shell", with only one room, the Speaker's Parlour, intact. Thousands of historic artefacts, paintings, and items of furniture were lost in what has been described as a national tragedy. In January 2016, the National Trust announced that some of the principal rooms on the ground floor would be fully restored to the original 18th-century designs, and upper floors will be used for exhibitions and events.
The Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece is a 1577-1579 altarpiece by El Greco, painted for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain. The artist had just arrived in Spain and this was his first major commission there, gained thanks to Diego de Castilla, who he had met in Rome.
The total commission was for nine canvases, seven for the high altar and two for side altars. The high altarpiece was made up of an upper main canvas , a lower main canvas , four flanking panels of saints and a small painting on the tympanum between the two main paintings . Of these, only the original panels of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist remain in situ, along with the painting for the right-hand side altarpiece, Resurrection. Assumption is now in the Art Institute of Chicago and Holy Trinity in the Prado Museum. The rest are replaced in the church by copies.
Le musée Charles Dickens est une maison de l'Époque georgienne devenue musée depuis 1925, au 48 Doughty Street dans le quartier de Bloomsbury, à Londres, en Angleterre, où vécut le célèbre écrivain Charles Dickens durant deux ans de sa vie entre 1837 et 1839. Dans cette maison, on retrouve toutes les pièces d'une maison victorienne .
Ce site est desservi par la station de métro Russell Square.
La Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana della Natività della Beata Vergine Maria est située sur la piazza del Duomo, à Milan, en Italie. Dédiée à la Nativité de Marie , elle est le siège de l'archevêque de Milan. La cathédrale a pris près de six siècles à être achevée.
C'est la troisième plus grande église du monde après la basilique Saint-Pierre et la cathédrale Notre-Dame du Siège de Séville.
C. M. Russell Museum Complex is an art museum located in the city of Great Falls, Montana, in the United States. The museum's primary function is to display the artwork of Great Falls "cowboy artist" Charles Marion Russell, for whom the museum is named. The museum also displays illustrated letters by Russell, work materials used by him, and other items which help visitors understand the life and working habits of Russell. In addition, the museum displays original 19th, 20th, and 21st century art depicting the American Old West and the flora, fauna, and landscapes of the American West. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal called the institution "one of America's premier Western art museums." Located on the museum property is Russell's log cabin studio, as well as his two-story wood frame home. The house and log cabin studio were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In 1976, the listing boundaries were amended to account for moving the house.Beginning in 1969, the museum co-hosted the C. M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art—an auction of 19th, 20th, and 21st century art of the American West whose proceeds benefit the museum. The auction has received media attention in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2010, the two co-hosts parted ways, and the C. M. Russell Museum inaugurated a new auction, "The Russell."
Le jardin de Boboli est un parc historique de la ville de Florence, adjacent au palais Pitti, de la Porta Romana au Forte Belvedere. Le jardin, bâti sur la colline, qui reçoit chaque année plus de 800 000 visiteurs, est remarquable non seulement pour sa valeur historique et ses paysages, mais aussi pour sa collection de sculptures romaines et florentines des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
Le jardin, situé derrière le palais Pitti, résidence d'abord des Médicis, puis des Habsbourg-Lorraine et des Savoie, remonte au XVIe siècle. Au premier agencement de style Renaissance, visible dans le noyau le plus proche du palais, s'adjoignirent au cours des années de nouvelles parties de style différent : le long de l'axe parallèle au palais furent créées des allées recouvertes de gravillons, de nouveaux plans d'eau et leurs isolotto , des fontaines avec des nénuphars, de petits temples et des grottes. Dans ce jardin, les statues et les « fabriques », comme la kaffeehaus ou Casa del Caffè jouent un rôle remarquable, et permettent de jouir du panorama que le jardin offre sur la ville.
Le musée d'art Blanton est un musée et un centre de recherche faisant partie de l'université du Texas à Austin. Il s'agit du plus grand musée d'art universitaire du pays. Il fut fondé en 1963 sous le nom de University Art Museum avant d'être renommé Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery en 1980. En avril 2006, le musée ouvrit un nouveau bâtiment de 14 000 sur le campus baptisé Blanton Museum of Art, grâce à une dotation de 12 millions de dollars.
Bedford Hospital is a 400-bed district general hospital located in the English town of Bedford, serving north and mid Bedfordshire run by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Le baptistère San Giovanni est inclus dans le complexe architectural du Dôme de Sienne, et se trouve à l'aplomb du chœur de la basilique. On y accède par la place homonyme en contrebas accessible par les ruelles et l'escalier latéral extérieur.
Le baptistère Saint-Jean de Pise s’élève face à la façade ouest de la cathédrale de Pise, sur la piazza del Duomo, proche du Camposanto et du campanile. Sa base est de style roman d’influences pisane et lombarde puis gothique à partir du second étage. C’est un exemple du passage du style roman au style gothique.
Il présente une acoustique exceptionnelle.
Auckland Castle, which is also known as Auckland Palace and to people that live locally as the Bishop's Castle or Bishop's Palace, is located in the town of Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. In 1832, this castle replaced Durham Castle as the official residence of the Bishops of Durham. It is now a tourist attraction but still houses the Bishop's offices; the Castle is a Grade I listed historic site.
