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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The Museum is also a cultural center, presenting a broad program of concerts and poetry readings. A major aim of the Museum's activities is to promote awareness of Roerich's ideas about art and culture, as embodied in the Museum's symbol and its motto, Pax ...
Genius and innovation. The new Museum creates added value for Tuscany.
The renovation of the Museo Leonardiano, one of the most important collections dedicated to the Genius from Tuscany, is of fundamental importance for the town of Vinci and the surrounding area and marks a further milestone on the path of innovation embarked on by the enterprising museum team. Following the opening of the new museum area in Palazzina Uzielli ...
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and ...
Built in a historic area near temple of Gawdawpalin, on the banks of Ayeyarwaddy, a few steps away from Old Bagan Archaeological Museum.
The architect has combined influences that reflect the ancient and the modern interior environment, it seems to stay in a huge open-air museum.
The buildings of the complex is located in landscaped gardens linked together between narrow paths. The visitor spends living among ancient pagodas and extensive tropical gardens.
info: http://www.bagan-hotel.com/
Bottega Artigianale Lavacca is an artisanal workshop where love for wood, culture and respect for the traditions of master artisan Mario and his son Libero manifests in creations designed and made entirely by hand as an expression of our imagination and in response to the needs of a demanding clientele who are provided with exclusive craftsmanship that is unique and refined.
An extraordinary historical collection of exceptional interest, telling the technical evolution of the Fire Brigade National Corps.
The first and only Fire Brigade Historical Museum opened to the public and housed in a peripheral wing of the Ducal Palace of Mantua, the enormous old stables, where the Gonzagas used to keep their prestigious horses.
The Fire Brigade Historical Museum has got a surface of 16,147 SqFt (1,500 m2) and it is divided into four huge halls, linked ...
The navigation lock of Governolo brings us back to the period of Attila king of the Huns.
According to the tradition, this is the place where, in 452, the historic encounter took place between Attila and Pope Leo The Great, who managed to dissuade the former from continuing his invasion of the Italian peninsula...
Right in the centre of the village, where the river Mincio flew till the 1980s, there are the remains of the lock, probably ...
Camino has its beginnings firstly as a Roman settlement and its castle has an important strategic position, dominating the hills of lower Piedmont, looking out over the banks of the River Po and the plain of Vercelli. It was for this strategic importance that the castle was built around the year 1000 on the hill of Camino and which was enlarged and fortified even further over the centuries. . Today the castle is one of ...
Ducal Palace:
34,000 square metres (365,984 SqFt)
more than 500 rooms,
15 open spaces among gardens and courtyards
that is to say, a palace in the shape of a city.
Expression of the princes’ taste refinement, ever opened construction site where each Gonzaga, thanks to Pisanello, Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, Rubens ... leaves his own signs.
Palazzo Ducale is a palace that embodies many palaces, including a castle where it is housed the most celebrated room of the complex, the Camera ...
Mirror of the Dolce Vita at Federico II court, the gentle first born of Isabella d’Este Gonzaga, cultured patron of Giulio Romano’s genius. Impudent celebration of himself and of Charles V imperial might.
“Te” seems to be a place-name and has no relation with the word “tea” ("te" in Italian means tea)
Palazzo Te is a large suburban villa by Giulio Romano (Rom, 1492/99 - Mantua, 1546) built, between 1525 and 1535, for Federico II Gonzaga (1500-1540) ...
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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The ...
31 May, 2013 at 7:41 pm | on Museums
Genius and innovation. The new Museum creates added value for Tuscany.
The renovation of the Museo Leonardiano, one of the most important collections dedicated to the Genius from Tuscany, is ...
31 May, 2013 at 6:57 pm | on Museums
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the ...
1 January, 2013 at 8:22 pm | on Museums
Built in a historic area near temple of Gawdawpalin, on the banks of Ayeyarwaddy, a few steps away from Old Bagan Archaeological Museum.
The architect has combined influences that reflect the ancient and ...
Bottega Artigianale Lavacca is an artisanal workshop where love for wood, culture and respect for the traditions of master artisan Mario and his son Libero manifests in creations designed and made entirely ...
