Berkeley Square is a green town square in Mayfair in the West End of London, in the City of Westminster. It was laid out, extending further south, in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent.
The gardens' very large London Plane trees are among the oldest in central London, planted in 1789. One in the east is a Great Tree of London.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from 2008 to 2020, to be succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.
Bernard Berenson, pseudônimo de Bernhard Valvrojenski foi um estadunidense historiador de arte, especializado na Renascença. Seu livro Desenhos dos Pintores Florentinos foi um sucesso internacional. Acredita-se que sua esposa Maria tenha tido uma grande mão em alguns dos escritos.
Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing free education to students and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. Berea College charges no tuition; every admitted student is provided the equivalent of a four-year scholarship.Berea offers bachelor's degrees in 32 majors. It has a full-participation work-study program in which students are required to work at least 10 hours per week in campus and service jobs in any of over 130 departments. Berea's primary service region is Southern Appalachia, but students come from 46 states in the United States and 58 other countries, with approximately one in three students an ethnic minority or from outside the U.S.
Benthall Hall is a 16th-century English country house in Benthall in the town of Broseley, Shropshire, England, and a few miles from the historic Ironbridge Gorge. It retains much of its fine oak interior, and an elaborate 17th-century staircase. It is still occupied by the Benthall family, but has been owned by the National Trust since 1958, and is open to the public every Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday .
The Hall was built around 1580, probably on the site of an earlier 12th-century medieval manor and manor house. During the Civil War it was garrisoned, and was a site of several skirmishes.
The garden is largely the product of two tenants. George Maw , local pottery manufacturer and crocus enthusiast developed the garden from around 1865 onwards. Subsequently, the Victorian era Romantic painter and sculptor Robert Bateman , who was the son of a famous horticulturalist, added the rockeries and terraces of the current garden.
The Restoration era church of St. Bartholomew, built 1667-68, stands close by the Hall. The Shropshire Way, a waymarked long-distance footpath, passes through the extensive woodland that lies to the north, between the estate and the River Severn.
A Abadia de Solesmes é um mosteiro beneditino localizado em Solesmes, Sarthe, famoso pela restauração da vida monástica beneditina e preservação do canto gregoriano na França, sob Dom Prosper Guéranger, após a Revolução Francesa.
È a casa-madre da Congregação de Solesmes.
A Abadia de Melk é um centro espiritual e cultural de grande importância da Áustria, localizado na cidade de Melk, junto ao rio Danúbio. Faz parte da Paisagem Cultural de Wachau, um sítio classificado como Patrimônio da Humanidade pela UNESCO.
O Museu Benaki (em grego: Μουσείο Μπενάκη é um museu de arte, história, etnologia e arqueologia da Grécia, localizado na sua capital, Atenas.
O museu foi criado graças aos esforços de Antonis Benakis, um grande colecionador de antiguidades e um ardente patriota que investiu toda a sua fortuna em atividades de interesse social e cultural. Desde jovem, vivendo em Alexandria, se interessou pelo colecionismo e começou a reunir objetos da cultura islâmica. Mais tarde concentrou seu campo de ação na cultura grega, nas tradições clássica, bizantina, pós-bizantina e folclórica, e por volta de 1926, quando já estava estabelecido em Atenas, passou a acalentar a idéia de criar um museu. Seu entusiasmo contagiou seus irmãos, que cederam sua parte na herança de um palacete familiar que possuíam na avenida Vasilissis Sophias. O museu foi doado à nação e inaugurado solenemente em 22 de abril de 1931.Graças a doações de propriedades rendosas o museu pode operar com relativa tranquilidade para cumprir sua missão, e inúmeros doadores contribuíram para o crescimento de seu acervo. Quando Benakis morreu, em 1954, a instituição já possuía 26.666 objetos, 10.410 livros e manuscritos e 146 unidades arquivísticas. Nos anos seguintes até o presente a coleção recebeu centenas de milhares de novos itens, entre livros, negativos fotográficos, fotografias originais, documentos, objetos folclóricos e infantis, pinturas, esculturas, gravuras e desenhos. Esse crescimento acelerado do acervo impôs a reforma dos espaços originais do palacete e a criação de várias sedes subsidiárias para melhor acomodá-lo, doadas por importantes mecenas:Atualmente a sede principal em Atenas abriga somente peças da cultura grega, sendo o único museu da Grécia cujo acervo cobre todos os períodos de sua história. Entretanto, não é um museu estritamente nacionalista, dedicando-se a incorporar peças de outras culturas que influenciaram a história grega. O museu já organizou diversas exposições itinerantes em vários países e em 2000 reabriu após reparar os danos causados pelo Sismo de Atenas de 1999.
Bedford is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. Its council is based at Bedford, the county town of Bedfordshire. The borough contains one large urban area, the 71st largest in the United Kingdom that comprises Bedford and the adjacent town of Kempston, surrounded by a rural area with many villages. 75% of the borough's population live in the Bedford Urban Area and the five large villages which surround it, which makes up slightly less than 6% of the total land area of the Borough.
The borough is also the location of the Wixams new town development, which received its first residents in 2009.
Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about 3 1⁄2 miles west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire.
The institution gained full university status in August 2005, and was previously known as Bath College of Higher Education, and later Bath Spa University College. It is the UK's sixth biggest provider of Teacher Education.
The Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset, England.
The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house in Great Pulteney Street. In 1985, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded posting of a Penny Black took place on 2 May 1840. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.The museum's collections include: biographies of key figures involved with the development of the Post Office and connected with Bath, such as Ralph Allen, John Palmer and Thomas Moore Musgrave; a history of the post from 2000BC to the current day and a history of the British postbox.
Artefacts on display included quills and ink wells, stamp boxes, post boxes, post horns, clay tablets, strip maps, model mail coaches, and letters and postcards. There was also a replica Victorian post office.
Due to vastly increased rent from 2003, the museum had to move out of the Broad Street building and on 7 November 2006 it reopened on a much smaller scale in the basement of the post office building at 27 Northgate Street.
The Bates College Museum of Art is the art museum of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. It holds various mediums of arts that showcase Maine and the greater American area. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art. The Museum publishes numerous art collections, and art publications every year. The primary focuses of the main collections are works on paper, including modern and contemporary art including drawings, prints and photographs.It is the largest museum of art in the city of Lewiston, Maine, followed by Museum L/A. In the 1930s, the college secured a private holding from the Museum of Modern Art of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, for students participating in the 'Bates Plan'. It holds 5,000 pieces and objects of contemporary domestic and international art. The museum holds over 100 original artworks, photographs and sketches from Marsden Hartley. The MoA offers numerous lectures, artist symposiums, and workshops.
The entire space is split into three components, the larger Upper Gallery, smaller Lower Gallery, and the Synergy Gallery which is primarily used for student exhibits and research. Almost 20,000 visitors are attracted to the MoA annually. The museum opened on October 7, 1955, as the Treat Gallery by Norma Berger, the niece of Marsden Hartley. With the ushering of the Olin Arts Center on to the campus, the gallery was formed into the Museum of Art at Bates College in 1986. The scope was also increased to facilitate educational programming in sync to the scholarly pursuits of the college and with the Lewiston-Auburn community.
In 2005, the museum reorganized into four galleries: the Bates Gallery, Collection Gallery, the Underground Synergy Seminar space, and the 150 Art Reader Stairwell. As of 2010 the director of the museum is Dan Mills.
San Paolo Maggiore ou Basílica de São Paulo Maior é uma basílica menor em Nápoles, Itália, e o local onde está sepultado Caetano de Thiene, melhor conhecido como São Caetano , o fundador da Ordem dos Clérigos Regulares da Divina Providência . Está localizada na Piazza Gaetano, a cerca de 2 quarteirões ao norte da Via dei Tribunali.
A San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio é uma basílica menor e igreja titular de Roma, Itália, junto à colina do Capitólio. É dedicada a São Marcos Evangelista.
O cardeal-presbítero do Título de São Marcos é o patriarca emérito de Veneza Marco Cé.
The Abbey of Santa Giustina is a 10th-century Benedictine abbey complex located in front of the Prato della Valle in central Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. Adjacent to the former monastery is the basilica church of Santa Giustina, initially built in the 6th century, but whose present form derives from a 17th-century reconstruction.
A Basilica Palladiana é um edifício público que se perfila na Piazza dei Signori, em Vicenza, capital da província com o mesmo nome na região do Véneto. o seu nome está indissociavelmente ligado ao do arquitecto renascentista Andrea Palladio, que reprojectou o Palazzo della Ragione acrescentando-lhe à pré-existente construção gótica as célebres loggias em mármore branco com serlianas.
Em tempos sede das magistraturas públicas de Vicenza, hoje a Basilica Palladiana, dotada de três espaços expositivos independentes, é cenário de mostras de arquitectura e de arte. Está incluida, desde 1994, com as outras obras arquitectónicas de Palladio em Vicenza, na lista do Património da Humanidade da UNESCO como fazendo parte do sítio Cidade de Vicenza e Villas de Palladio no Véneto.
