Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter , a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
The Filson Historical Society is a historical society located in the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The organization was founded in 1884 and named after early Kentucky explorer John Filson, who wrote The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke, which included one of the first maps of the state. The Filson's extensive collections focus on Kentucky, the Upper South, and the Ohio River Valley. Its research facilities include a manuscript collection as well as a library that includes rare books, periodicals, maps, and other published materials. The Filson also maintains a small museum. One distinctive possession of the museum is a section of American beech tree trunk, with the carved legend "D. Boon kilt a bar [killed a bear] 1803."
The Des Moines Art Center is an art museum with an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, modern art and mixed media. It was established in 1948 in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Dayton Art Institute is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Dayton Art Institute has been rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for children. The museum also ranks in the top 3% of all art museums in North America in 3 of 4 factors. In 2007, the art institute saw 303,834 visitors.
County Hall is a high-rise tower block in Aylesbury, in the county of Buckinghamshire in England. It was built to house the former Buckinghamshire County Council, and it remains the main office and the meeting place of Buckinghamshire Council. The block was designed by county architect Fred Pooley and completed in 1966.
A Catedral de Módena é um dos lugares de arte românica mais importantes da Europa e Patrimônio Mundial da Humanidade, da UNESCO.
The Museum of Cambridge, formerly known as the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, is a museum located in Castle Street in central Cambridge, England. It is housed in eight rooms in the former White Horse Inn, a public house that closed in 1934. The museum presents the lives of the people of Cambridge and its surrounding area, the county of Cambridgeshire from 1700 onwards. The collection includes objects covering applied art, coins, costumes, decorative art, fine art, hobbies, law and order, medals, medicine, music, social history, textiles and toys. The museum is supported by Cambridge City Council, the National Lottery, through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and two local organisations: the Cambridge 800 Committee, a registered charity founded in 2006, whose aims are "to help ensure the future of the Cambridge and County Folk Museum so that it can be enjoyed by future generations, especially children". the Friends of the Folk Museum, whose separate short term fund-raising provides specific items for the museum.The museum was shortlisted for the 2006 Gulbenkian Prize.
Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, in the care of the charitable National Trust.The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704. The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust.
A Academia Britânica é a instituição nacional britânica de humanidades e ciências sociais. Foi fundada por uma Royal Charter em 1902, e é uma confraria de mais de 800 acadêmicos. A instituição é autônoma e independente.
Oxford , em português chamada Oxónia ou Oxônia ou Oxforde, é uma cidade e distrito de governo local do condado de Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido, com uma população de 134.248 habitantes . A Carfax Tower é normalmente considerada o centro da cidade. Está situada às margens do rio Tâmisa, que aí é chamado de rio Ísis. Oxford, a cidade dos "Dreaming Spires", é famosa mundialmente pela sua universidade e lugar na história. A universidade de Oxford é a mais antiga das universidades de língua inglesa, considerado uma das 10 melhores universidades do mundo. Um engano comum cometido por turistas recém-chegados é perguntar onde fica o campo da Universidade de Oxford que na verdade não existe, como em universidades modernas, mas sim é composto por cerca de 40 colégios espalhados pela cidade. Dentre os mais antigos e famosos colégios encontram-se Magdalen, New College, Christ Church, St. Johns, Somerville, Brasenose e All Souls. Entre seus famosos alumni destacam-se então-futuros reis, presidentes e outros famosos estadistas além de estudiosos, cientistas, escritores, ganhadores do Prêmio Nobel, atores e demais. Dentre esses Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Indira Gandhi, C. S. Lewis , J. R. R. Tolkien , Edmund Halley, que deu o nome ao famoso cometa, Robert Hooke, Dorothy Hodgkin, Lewis Carroll , Benazir Bhutto, Manfred von Richthofen , Oscar Wilde, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch, e Theo James . Por mais de 800 anos, foi um lar da realeza e estudiosos, e desde o século IX oficializada cidade. No século XVII, durante a segunda guerra civil Inglesa, foi sede da corte do rei Carlos I, então refugiado de Londres pelos parlamentaristas. Como consequência, houve diversas batalhas ao longo de 5 anos onde o exército roialista atacava ou defendia-se do parlamentarista e refugiava-se em Oxford até sua derrota e consequente fuga de Carlos I em 1646. A fama de cidade universitária inglesa é dividida com sua eterna rival, Cambridge. Recentemente, seus "colleges" foi escolhido para servir de cenário para filmagens do filme Harry Potter. Oxford também foi berço de livros importantes e famosos na literatura mundial, como Alice no País das Maravilhas de Lewis Carroll, O Senhor dos Anéis de J. R. R. Tolkien, e muitos outros. O pub The Eagle and The Child era até um dos lugares preferidos de Tolkien.
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, today has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Among other highlights, the Museum’s collection of Asian art is considered the finest and most comprehensive in the Southeast, and its Vietnamese ceramics one of the finest in the U.S. The Museum also is home to a remarkable Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the late 13th century to c.1750, and the 18th-century European decorative arts include superior examples of English ceramics and French furniture. The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres in the heart of the city’s cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight and Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993. The facility encompasses 180,000 square feet , including an outdoor sculpture garden.
Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis)
A Catedral Basílica de Saint Denis é uma ampla igreja abacial na comuna de Saint-Denis, atualmente um subúrbio ao norte de Paris. A igreja abacial foi nomeada catedral em 1966 e é a residência do Bispo de Saint-Denis, Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy. O edifício é de grande importância histórica e arquitetônica. Embora seja universalmente conhecido como o "Basílica de Saint-Denis" na verdade, tem oficialmente o título "Catedral-Basílica". Desde 1966, a abadia tornou-se catedral e sede da diocese de Saint-Denis.Fundada no século VII por Dagoberto I onde São Dinis, um santo padroeiro da França, foi sepultado, a igreja se tornou um local de peregrinação e o mausoléu dos reis franceses, quase todos os reis do século X ao XVIII foram sepultados lá, assim como muitos dos séculos anteriores. "Saint-Denis" logo se tornou a abadia de um crescente complexo monástico. No século XII o Abade Suger reconstruiu partes da abadia usando inovadas características estruturais e decorativas, que foram extraídas de uma série de outras fontes. Ao fazer isso, ele afirmou ter criado o primeiro edifício verdadeiramente gótico. A nave do século XIII da basílica também é o protótipo do estilo gótico radiante, e forneceu um modelo de arquitetura para catedrais e mosteiros do norte da França, Inglaterra e outros países.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts .As the main development agency for the arts it is responsible for the distribution of Exchequer and National Lottery Funding for the arts in Northern Ireland. The council is headquartered at 1 The Sidings, Antrim Road, Lisburn. Organisationally it is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Communities. The following funding schemes are provided by the Arts Council to organisations in Northern Ireland. Programmes are open at specific times during the year and the programme availability is subject to change. Music Touring Small Grants Programme Building Peace through the Arts - Re-Imaging Communities Annual Funding Programme Arts and Older People programme funding Public Art Funding Capacity Building Intercultural Arts Programme funding Project Funding Musical Instruments for Bands Equipment and Minor Refurbishments The following funding programmes are open to individual artists at specific times during the calendar year. Dates are subject to change. Travel Awards Support for the Individual Artist programme
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest and largest regional art gallery in Australia. Established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by the citizens of Ballarat, both the building and part of its collection is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and by the National Trust of Victoria. The gallery was the notable home of the original Eureka Flag and houses major collections covering the history of Australian art from the early colonial period to the present day.For the first five years of the gallery's life, the Association rented the large supper room of the Ballarat Academy of Music, now Her Majesty's Theatre, which was made available by Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet. The Association then worked to secure land on the site of the Government Camp and to raise funds for a permanent home for its collection. Much of the energy and the money came from a prominent Ballarat citizen, James Oddie. The current building is the oldest purpose built art gallery building in Australia. Designed by Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy in the Renaissance Revival architecture style as a bluestone brick and render facade and stone stairway, the foundation stone was laid by Sir William Clarke in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The new building was opened by Alfred Deakin on Friday 13 June 1890.The gallery is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, of which the City of Ballarat is the sole shareholder. It is administered by a board of directors. Louise Tegart is the current Director. The gallery is supported by the Art Gallery of Ballarat Foundation, which raises funds and receives donations on behalf of the gallery and by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Association, an independent organisation which established the gallery in 1884 and gave it to the Ballaarat City Council in 1972. Membership of the Association is open to members of the public and brings with it a range of benefits, including discounts at the gallery shop and cafe and invitations to exhibition openings.
The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The museum was established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 7 April 2004, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 storeys tall with a total floor area of 20,700 m² and designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Today, ARoS is one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe with a total of 980,909 visitors in 2017. Apart from the large galleries with both permanent and changing exhibitions, the ARoS building features an arts shop, a dining café and a restaurant. The architectural vision of the museum was completed in 2011, with the addition of the circular skywalk Your rainbow panorama by Ólafur Elíasson. The installation has helped boost the museum's attendance, making it the second most visited museum in Denmark, just behind the well-known Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk.
American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
The American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection is a non-profit museum located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2010, it is the permanent home for The Anschutz Collection, a formerly private collection of paintings that surveys the art of the American West from the early 19th century to the present.
The Museum of Royal Worcester is a ceramics museum located in the Royal Worcester porcelain factory's former site in Worcester, England.
