A Basílica de Superga é uma igreja localizada aos arredores de Turim, na Itália. Foi construída no século XVIII pelo arquiteto Filippo Juvarra, sob encomenda do duque Vítor Amadeu II de Saboia em memória à vitória sobre as tropas franceses que cercavam a colina de Superga em 1706. Situa-se no topo do morro de Superga e fora catalogado pelo Papa Pio XII como "o panorama mais belo da Europa".A igreja abriga os túmulos de muitos membros da Casa de Saboia em uma espécie de mausoléu subterrâneo. Entre eles, está D. Maria Pia de Saboia, rainha de Portugal e o do próprio Vítor Amadeu II.
The La Salle University Art Museum is located in the basement of Olney Hall at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum features six galleries. Collections include European and American art from the Renaissance to the present. Special collections including paper, Japanese prints, rare illustrated Bibles, Indian miniatures, African carvings and implements, Pre-Columbian pottery and Ancient Greek ceramics. Changing exhibits are held of historic and contemporary art drawn from the collections and from outside collections.
The Museum of Metz , in Metz, France, was founded in 1839. It is a labyrinthine organization of rooms, incorporating the ancient Petites Carmes Abbey, the Chèvremont granary, and the Trinitaires church. The institution is organized into four broad sections:
the history and archeological museum, containing rich collections of Gallo-Roman finds — extension works to the museums in the 1930s revealed the vestiges of Gallo-Roman baths;
the medieval department;
the museum of architecture;
the museum of fine arts.
A Fortaleza de Coburgo é um castelo alemão que domina a cidade bávara de Coburgo, na fronteira da Baviera com a Turíngia. Com uma extensão de cerca de 135 por 260 metros, é um dos maiores e mais bem preservados castelos da Alemanha. O castelo está localizado 167 metros acima do centro da cidade, com uma altitude de 464 metros acima do nível do mar. Na encosta do monte do castelo estende-se em direcção à cidade o Coburger Hofgarten .
A Fortaleza de Coburgo nunca foi conquistada ao longo da sua história, embora tenha sido tomado em Março de 1635, durante a Guerra dos Trinta Anos, pelo General de Lamboy, depois de um cerco de cinco meses, com a ajuda de uma carta forjada na qual o Duque João Ernesto ordenava a sua transferência.
Franke-Schenk is an art dealership and art gallery in Munich, Germany, which presents works of art from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The Kunstsalon came into being in 2009, after the merger of two companies.
The Krannert Art Museum is a fine art museum located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States. It has 48,000 square feet of space devoted to all periods of art, dating from ancient Egypt to contemporary photography. The museum's collection of more than 10,000 objects includes specializations in 20th-century art, Asian art, and pre-Columbian art, particularly works from the Andes.
In addition to permanent exhibitions, the museum often features 12 to 15 exhibitions each year from traveling national and international museum collections as well as exhibitions of professional artists, faculty and student work.
A Biblioteca Nacional dos Países Baixos , com sede na Haia, foi fundada em 1798. O rei Lodewijk Napoleón deu-lhe o seu nome atual em 1806. A instituição independizou-se do Estado em 1996, ainda que está financiada pelo Departamento de Educação, Cultura e Ciência.
A cidade de Syktyvkar é a capital da República de Komi, na Federação Russa. A população era de 230.011 pessoas no Censo russo de 2002.
Syktyvkar está localizada às margens do rio Sysola, o qual é a origem de seu nome anterior Ust-Sysolsk. O atual nome da cidade vem de Syktyv, o nome do mesmo rio, mas em língua komi, acrescido de kar, que significa "cidade". Syktivkar está bem próxima do ponto onde o rio Sysola chega ao rio Vychegda, sendo este um tributário do rio Duína do Norte.
Kirkwall is the largest town of Orkney, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland.
The name Kirkwall comes from the Norse name Kirkjuvágr , which later changed to Kirkvoe, Kirkwaa and Kirkwall.
Kinloch Castle is a late Victorian mansion located on the island of Rùm, one of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It was built as a private residence for Sir George Bullough, a textile tycoon from Lancashire whose father bought Rùm as his summer residence and shooting estate. Construction began in 1897, and was completed in 1900. Built as a luxurious retreat, Kinloch Castle has since declined. The castle and island are now owned by Scottish Natural Heritage, who operated part of the castle as a hostel until 2015, and continue to offer tours of the main rooms to visitors. The Kinloch Castle Friends Association was established in 1996 to secure the long-term future of the building.
Kinloch Castle is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire, England, is an elegant, 18th-century country house about 5 miles south of Market Harborough and 11 miles north of Northampton. It is a Grade I listed house and is open to public viewing.The present Palladian hall was built in 1732 for William Hanbury, Esq , a famous antiquarian, by Francis Smith of Warwick, to a James Gibbs design; the hall is still today surrounded by its working estate, and comprises both parkland and gardens. Pevsner described the building as, “a perfect, extremely reticent design… done in an impeccable taste."
In building the hall, Hanbury was utilising a fortune which had been bolstered by an advantageous marriage to a niece of Viscount Bateman; he went on to acquire the Shobdon estate in Herefordshire and one of his grandchildren, William Hanbury III, succeeded to a Bateman baronetcy.
Richard Christopher Naylor, a Liverpool banker, cotton trader and horse racing enthusiast, purchased the estate in 1864, mainly for its hunting potential. In 1902, George Granville Lancaster bought the estate; his son, Claude, inherited on his majority in 1924, and later passed to Claude's elder sister Cicely in 1967; she later established the Kelmarsh Trust to safeguard the estate's future after her death in 1996.
Ronald Tree and his wife Nancy, née Perkins took a 60-year repairing lease on the Hall in 1929. Tree became the Member of Parliament for Harborough in 1933. His wife, who became renowned for her work and taste in interior design, subsequently married the owner of the Place, Colonel Lancaster.
The Rektoratskirche St. Karl Borromäus, commonly called the Karlskirche , is a Baroque church located on the south side of Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria. Widely considered the most outstanding baroque church in Vienna, as well as one of the city's greatest buildings, the church is dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, one of the great counter-reformers of the sixteenth century.Located on the edge of the Innere Stadt, approximately 200 meters outside the Ringstraße, the church contains a dome in the form of an elongated ellipsoid.
O Museu Judaico de Berlim é um museu situado em Berlim e que cobre a história dos judeus alemães ao longo de dois milénios.
Este museu, foi fundado no ano de 1933 em Oranienburger Straße e foi encerrado em 1938 pelo Regime nazista, pelo Gestapo. Nesse período, todas as obras foram confiscadas. Daniel Libeskind desenhou um novo edifício para o novo museu que abriu as suas portas em 2001. O Museu está dividido em dois edifícios: o "Prédio Velho" e o "Prédio Novo". No Prédio Velho, de arquitetura barroca, está o Museu de Berlim. O edifício foi construído em 1735 e reconstruído após a destruição na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nesta parte, estão a loja de presentes e souvenires, exposições temporárias e um espaço para eventos. O "Novo Prédio", construído em 2001, se chama "Libeskind", e é acessado por meio de uma escada do antigo prédio. A arquitetura em zigue-zague sugere associação entre a vida dos judeus no país com o formato de "vai e vem". Além de exibir artes e relíquias, o Museu reforça aspectos culturais, sociais e políticos da história dos judeus na Alemanha. Hoje em dia, o Museu Judaico de Berlim é um dos mais visitados da Alemanha.
Josefsplatz is a public square located at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. Named after Emperor Joseph II, Josefsplatz is considered one of the finest courtyards in Vienna.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery is an art gallery in Joubert Park in the city centre of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the largest gallery on the continent with a collection that is larger than that of the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.The building, which was completed in 1915, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with Robert Howden working as supervising architect, and consists of 15 exhibition halls and sculpture gardens. It houses collections of 17th-century Dutch paintings, 18th- and 19th-century British and European art, 19th-century South African works, a large contemporary collection of 20th-century local and international art, and a print cabinet containing works from the 15th century to the present.
O Museu Judaico de Nova Iorque foi estabelecido em 1904, quando o Seminário Teológico Judaico da América recebeu um presente de 26 objetos artísticos judaicos cerimoniais da Juiz Mayer Sulzberger. Em 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, viúva do filantropo Felix Warburg, doou a mansão de sua família para usá-la como o museu. O museu permanece no mesmo local e mostra uma coleção de 26.000 objetos incluindo pinturas, esculturas, artefatos arqueológicos e muitas outras obras importantes para a preservação da história e cultura dos judeus. Desde os anos 80, algumas das exibições importantes do museu incluíram: The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905–1945 , The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice , Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945 , Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities , Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from The Jewish Museum’s Collection, 1945–2000 , Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art , New York: Capital of Photography e Modigliani Beyond the Myth . Joan Rosenbaum é o Diretor Helen Goldsmith Menschel do museu.
O Palazzo Castellani é um palácio de Florença que se encontra na Piazza dei Giudici, logo por trás da esplanada da Galleria degli Uffizi. Actualmente, o severo edifício medieval de três andares hospeda o Museu de História da Ciência de Florença, onde se conserva uma das mais importantes colecções científicas a nível nacional e internacional.
