Dame Alice Owen's School is an 11–18 mixed, partially selective secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England. It is part of the Dame Alice Owen's Foundation; its trustees are the Worshipful Company of Brewers.
It was founded in Islington as a boys' school for 30 students in 1613, which makes it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, and is named after its founder, the 17th-century philanthropist Alice Owen. Over time, the boys' school expanded. A girls' school was built in 1886, and the two schools were merged in 1973; the mixed school moved to its current location at Dugdale Hill Lane in Potters Bar in stages between 1973 and 1976.
The school is one of the highest performing state schools in England and Wales in terms of the General Certificate of Secondary Education and GCE Advanced Level results, and is widely considered one of the best schools in the UK. In 2016, it was named the State Secondary School of the Year by The Sunday Times in the newspaper's rankings for the 2016–17 school year, and Tatler and The Daily Telegraph have also strongly praised it.
The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese writer, humanist, and philosopher Salim Moussa Achi , whose pen name was Dr. Dahesh. The core of the museum's holdings consists of Dahesh's collection of more than 2,000 academic paintings, which includes many notable Orientalist paintings.The Museum's regular exhibition space closed in 2008, leaving the museum temporarily available only online and in traveling exhibitions. In early 2012, the Museum reopened an office and gift shop in Manhattan's Hudson Square neighborhood, near SoHo. Renovations began in 2015 on the museum's new permanent home at 178 East 64th Street. According to the museum's website, the opening is anticipated in winter 2019-2020.
Clifton Park and Museum is a city park and municipal museum located in Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Clifton Park Museum is located in Clifton House and one of several publicly owned museums and visitor attractions administered by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. The house is the headquarters of Heritage Services, which also includes the York and Lancaster Regimental Museum and Archives and Local Studies. It is a Grade II* listed building. Clifton Park is a visitor attraction with facilities including a skate park, rockery, memorial park and children's play areas. It is also Grade II listed with Historic England.
The Applied Arts Collection of Milan is located in the Sforza Castle museum complex under the management of the municipality of Milan, Italy. The museum is divided into several sections with particular emphasis on jewelry, ivories, pottery and art glass.
The ceramic collection includes medieval, Renaissance and Baroque pottery, a maiolica group with pieces from 17th-century Lodi and Milan, and a collection of European chinaware and earthenware.
The collection of artistic glass includes the Cup Gonzagna, made of crystal clear glass and decorated with a pattern of small golden flowers and the Gonzaga coat of arm with a quadripartite black eagle on a white background.
In the Sala Della Balla is the Arazzi Trivulzio, a series of twelve tapestries representing the different months of the years. Their design is based on drawings by Italian painter Bramantino.
The Cappella Sansevero is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà. It contains works of Rococo art by some of the leading Italian artists of the 18th century.
シャンモル修道院(シャンモルしゅうどういん(仏: Charteuse de Champmol))はディジョン郊外に位置するカルトジオ会の修道院。現在のディジョンはフランス中部の都市だが、15世紀はブルゴーニュ公国の首都だった。シャンモル修道院はブルゴーニュ公フィリップ2世(フィリップ豪胆公)がヴァロワ=ブルゴーニュ公爵家の墓所として1383年に建設し、フランス革命のさなかに接収されるまで歴代ブルゴーニュ公爵の墓が置かれていた。「悪評高き壮大な浪費」といわれるほど、数々の美術品が惜しみなく使われており、後世に修道院から散逸したそれらの美術品のコレクションは依然として当時の芸術を理解するための非常に重要な遺産となっている
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Volterra Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Volterra, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is the seat of the bishop of Volterra.
パルマ大聖堂はイタリア、エミリア・ロマーニャ州のパルマにある大聖堂(ドゥオモ)。
正式名称は『Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta(サンタ・マリア・アッスンタ大聖堂)』である。
パルマのドゥオモ広場の東側に面して建ち、広場の南に洗礼堂、西には司教館も併設されている。2006年に献堂900周年となった大聖堂である。
パルマ自体、13世紀の典型的な都市の姿をもっとも完全な形で伝えるとされ、その中でもイタリアロマネスク建築の代表のひとつともされる建築物で、これらをひとつの構造に見立てる観点もあることから、本項ではこれらの併設施設についても触れることとする。また、パルマ大聖堂の説明には必ずといってよいほど言及される、建設に関わった一人の彫刻家(後述のベネデット・アンテーラミ)についても扱う。
Lichfield Cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, is the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. The Diocese of Lichfield covers Staffordshire, much of Shropshire, and parts of the Black Country and West Midlands. The current Bishop of Lichfield, Michael Ipgrave, was appointed in 2016.
ブルゴス大聖堂 (スペイン語: Catedral de Burgos)、またはサンタ・マリア・デ・ブルゴス大聖堂(スペイン語: Catedral de Santa María de Burgos)は、スペイン・カスティーリャ・イ・レオン州ブルゴス県ブルゴスにあるゴシック様式のカトリック教会の大聖堂。聖母マリアに捧げられた、巨大で独自性のある建築物として有名である。
Cape Ann is a rocky cape in northeastern Massachusetts, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.
The Ca' Zenobio degli Armeni is a Baroque-style palace structure in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, in Venice, Italy. The nearby bridge Ponte del Soccorso connects it to the Palazzo Ariani.
Apartment Museum of Joseph Brodsky is an informal memorial museum, created in 2006 on behalf of the governor of St. Petersburg, in order to preserve the memory of the cultural and literary period 1960-1990, the central figure of which is the poet and Nobel laureate, Joseph Brodsky. The concept of the future exposition deals Anna Akhmatova Museum.
The apartment is in the Muruzi House. The museum formally does no operate because the founders of the museum failed to acquire the whole apartment, therefore it is still in the status of a residential unit.