The Opificio delle pietre dure, literally meaning Workshop of semi-precious stones, is a public institute of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage based in Florence. It is a global leader in the field of art restoration and provides teaching as one of two Italian state conservation schools . The institute maintains also a specialist library and archive of conservation and a museum displaying historic examples of pietre dure inlaid semi-precious stones artefacts. A scientific laboratory conducts research and diagnostics and provides a preventive conservation service.
National Museum of San Matteo, Pisa
The National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa displays works from historic ecclesiastical buildings in the city and Province of Pisa.
The Musei Civici di Padova or degli Eremitani is a complex of museums and historic sites, centered around the former convent of the Eremitani , and its famous Cappella degli Scrovegni with its Giotto fresco masterpieces. The complex is located on Piazza Eremitani, at the edge of the historic center of Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The complex includes halls of archaeological objects and - in the nearby Palazzo Zuckermann - a museum of modern and medieval applied art.
Eugène Boudin foi marinheiro e um dos mais notáveis pintores precursores do Impressionismo, ao tentar expor nas suas telas, variações da atmosfera, jogos de luz e cor e a fluidez dos horizontes no mar.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
The musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes is a municipal museum in the French town of Valenciennes. Its collections originated as the collection of the Académie valenciennoise de peinture et de sculpture. It opened to the public for the first time in 1801 and was moved into the town hall in 1834. A competition to design a new building was held at the end of the 19th century, won by Paul Dusart. The new building was opened on 27 June 1909 and in 1995 was totally renovated and the display space expanded, with the addition of a basement displaying archaeological remains and artefacts. As well as paintings, it includes several sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , born in the town, as well as a prints and drawings department and
Montacute House é um palácio rural inglês, situado na vila de Montacute, em South Somerset. Tem a reputação de ser uma das melhores casas de campo do Período Isabelino, no Reino Unido. Este palácio de três pisos, construído com pedra local de Ham Hill, foi erguido por volta do ano 1598 por Sir Edward Phelips, Master of the Rolls da Rainha Isabel I. Há quem sugira que o arquitecto responsável pelo desenho da obra terá sido William Arnold, apesar disso ainda não estar confirmado. O palácio distingue-se pelas cumeeiras holandesas decoradas com macacos de pedra e outras criaturas. As largas janelas, compostas por janelas divididas, uma inovação para a época, dá a aparência de que a fachada principal é, toda ela, constituída por vidro. Uma fenestração semelhante já fora empregue em Hardwick Hall, no Derbyshire. No piso de cima, as janelas da galeria são intercaladas por estátuas que representam as 'nove personalidades' vestidas com trajes romanos. No interior, duas amplas escadarias em pedra dão acesso a cada andar; durante os períodos húmidos, as crianças Phelips children podiam conduzir os seus póneis pelas escadas para cavalgar na Long Gallery. Montacute House, como muitos outros palácios Isabelinos , está construído com a forma da letra em honra da rainha Isabel I . No piso térreo encontrava-se o grande hall, cozinhas e dispensas. Nos pisos superiores ficavam as salas privadas da família e convidados de honra. Ao longo dos séculos, a disposição e uso das salas foi mudando: Elegantes salas de estar e de jantar desenvolveram-se no piso térreo; no primeiro andar nasceu uma magnífica biblioteca apainelada, além de quartos, incluindo o quarto de banho secreto, de Lord Curzon, oculto num vestiário. Em nenhum palácio da Era Isabelina existiam corredores; os quartos levavam directamente de um ao outro. Isso mudou no século XVIII, quando a fachada duma mansão demolida na aldeia de Clifton Maybank foi usada na renovação de Montacute House, o que veio providenciar os necessários corredores. Agora, com o novo frontispício no sítio, a casa estava virtualmente virada: a fachada vinda de 'Clifton-Maybank' tornava-se na entrada principal do palácio, e a impressionante fachada antiga tinha agora uma vista panorâmica para um terreno relvado rodeado por flores, especialmente na entrada original do pátio. Os pequenos pavilhões que flanqueavam a portaria original ainda resistem, lembrando duas cottage gémeas, com os seus telhados em ogiva. Talvez a característica mais notável da casa seja a long gallery do terceiro piso, estendida por todo o piso superior da casa. Originalmente usada como uma zona interior para exercício durante o tempo húmido, actualmente é usado pelo National Portrait Gallery, de Londres, para exibir as suas colecções. Vivendo na zona de Montacute desde, pelo menos, 1480, os Phelipses continuaram a residir no palácio até ao início do século XX, quando a fortuna da família ruiu. Em 1915, o palácio foi deixado, inicialmente, a George Nathaniel Curzon, 1º Marquês Curzon de Kedleston, depois à família Enos, norte-americanos, famosos pelos seus produtos farmacêuticos. Finalmente, em 1929, Montacute House foi vendido ao filantropo Ernest Cook, que o entregou à Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , e dessa sociedade, passou para o National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Foi uma das primeiras grandes casas deste Instituto. O nome "Montacute" presume-se que tenha derivado do latim Mons Acutus, referindo-se à pequena mas abrupta colina localizada a Oeste da vila. O palácio e a vila serviram frequentemente de locais de filmagem. Várias cenas do filme Sensibilidade e Bom Senso , baseado na novela de Jane Austen, foram filmadas em Montacute.
Kharkiv Municipal Gallery is one of the first Ukrainian galleries of contemporary art. The gallery combines the programs and exhibitions of traditional paintings, graphics, sculpture, photo, and contemporary art projects and new media. Since 2008 there is ARTbasement platform that works exclusively with youth and experimental art.
The Indiana State Museum is a museum located within White River State Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The museum houses exhibits on the science, art, culture, and history of Indiana from prehistoric times up to the present day. The museum is also the site of the state's largest IMAX screen.
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Arts and Crafts style. It has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments, and is known for its large collection of taxidermied animals. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and is constituted as a company and registered charity under English law.
Hertford College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college is known for its iconic bridge, the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas. The first Hertford College began in the 1280s as Hart Hall and became a college in 1740 but was dissolved in 1816. In 1820, the site was taken over by Magdalen Hall, which had emerged around 1490 on a site adjacent to Magdalen College. In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College. In 1974, Hertford was part of the first group of all-male Oxford colleges to admit women.Alumni of the college's predecessor institutions include William Tyndale, John Donne, Thomas Hobbes and Jonathan Swift. More recently, former students have included author Evelyn Waugh, the first female Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the civil servants Jeremy Heywood and Olly Robbins, and the newsreaders and reporters Fiona Bruce, Carrie Gracie, Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Natasha Kaplinsky.
Guy's Campus is a campus of King's College London adjacent to Guy's Hospital and situated close to London Bridge and the Shard, on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is home to the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and the Dental Institute.The campus is named for Thomas Guy, the founder and benefactor of Guy's Hospital established in 1726 in the London Borough of Southwark. Buildings include Guy's Chapel, the Henriette Raphael building, the Hodgkin building and Shepherd's House. The Students' Union centre at Guy's is situated in Boland House. Guy's Campus is located opposite the Old Operating Theatre Museum, which was part of old St Thomas Hospital in Southwark. The nearest Underground stations are London Bridge and Borough.
Greenville County Museum of Art
The Greenville County Museum of Art is an art museum located in Greenville, South Carolina. Its collections focus mainly on American art, and its holdings include works by Andrew Wyeth, Josef Albers, Jasper Johns , Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Ronnie Landfield, Helen Turner, Mary Tannahill, Eric Fischl, Marylyn Dintenfass, and Leon Golub. Southern American and South Carolina-based artists, such as Henrietta Johnston, are also represented.
The Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The gallery also exhibits a number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery, for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843. The New Masters Gallery is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen of Dresden. It is located in the Albertinum.
The Hospital de Tavera, also known as the Hospital de San Juan Bautista, Hospital de afuera, or simply as Hospital Tavera, is an important Building of Renaissance style that is in the Spanish city of Toledo. It was built between 1541 and 1603 by order of the Cardinal Tavera. This hospital is dedicated to John the Baptist and also served as pantheon for its patron, Cardinal Tavera. Initially it began to be constructed under the supervision of Alonso de Covarrubias, being succeeded by other architects and finishing the work Bartolomé Bustamante. The remoteness with the old part of the city made it known as el hospital de afuera, since within the walls there already existed the Hospital de Santa Cruz. Currently the building remains the property of the House of Medinaceli and inside it is the Museo Fundación Lerma, which houses part of the artistic collections of this lineage, as well as the Section of the Nobility of the National Historic Archive.
Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years.
Chatsworth House é uma exuberante mansão rural, localizada em Derbyshire, Inglaterra, situada a 5,6 km a nordeste de Bakewell e 14 km a oeste de Chesterfield. Residência do duque de Devonshire, é o lar da família Cavendish desde 1549. Fica na margem leste do rio Derwent, e tem vista para as colinas baixas entre os vales de Derwent e Wye. A mansão contém uma coleção única de pinturas e mobílias, desenhos de pintores que trabalharam antes de 1800, esculturas neoclássicas, entre outros artefatos. O jardim de Chatsworth é um dos mais famosos da Inglaterra. Além disso, Chatsworth House foi eleita, por muitas vezes, a propriedade campestre favorita do Reino Unido. A propriedade foi utilizada por diversas vezes ao longo dos séculos como cenário das mais elegantes ocasiões, desde festas grandiosas à recepções reais.
The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society was a gallery in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, which was home for a few years to the De Morgan Collection – a large collection of the work of the Victorian ceramic artist William De Morgan and his wife, the painter Evelyn De Morgan. William De Morgan's work was inspired by Middle Eastern and particularly Iznik ceramics which created in vivid blue and green glazes. De Morgan is also credited with the rediscovery in Victorian Britain of the art of lustre glazes. Evelyn De Morgan's art is notable for her rich use of colour and her emphasis on strong female protagonists. The De Morgans were involved in the social issues of the day such as women's suffrage, and this engagement was covered by the museum. The De Morgan Collection includes oil paintings, ceramics, drawings and archive material related to the De Morgans and their circle and it was formed by Evelyn De Morgan's sister, Mrs Wilhelmina Stirling, who wrote several books under the name A. M. W. Stirling. Mrs Stirling provided public access to the collection at her home, Old Battersea House, until her death in 1965. In 1967 the De Morgan Foundation, a registered charity, was formed to care for the collection and parts of it were loaned to a number of locations including Cardiff Castle, Cragside in Northumberland and Knightshayes Court in Devon, all of which have interiors from the years when the De Morgans were active. From 2002 the De Morgan Foundation provided public access to the De Morgan Collection in a dedicated gallery named the De Morgan Centre, which was based in the former West Hill Reference Library in Wandsworth, South West London. The building dates from 1887, which was coincidentally the year in which the De Morgan's were married. The West Hill Library closed on 28 September 2007 and latterly, the De Morgan Foundation shared the building with Wandsworth Museum. Both the De Morgan Centre and Wandsworth Museum closed to the public on 28 June 2014 due to the discontinuation of their lease by the building's freeholder Wandsworth Council. Since the closure of the De Morgan Centre, the De Morgan Foundation has moved its office to the Watts Gallery at Compton near Guildford in Surrey and continues to care for and exhibit the De Morgan Collection through a series of loans, exhibitions and tours. More information on the De Morgan Collection and where it can be viewed is available on the De Morgan Foundation's website.
