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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 ...
The Piazza del Campidoglio, situated on the top of the Capitol Hill, it has bee the most important square since the beginning of Rome' History. The temple of Jovis Capitolinum (Jupiter) was built there and still now some remnants are visible on the Mons Tarpaeum' side. The square is facing the Palazzo Senatorio, the Palace of the Rome' Major, called Senatore in old times, and is built between four medieval stone towers still recognizable from ...
A monastery built in 1592, in the centre of Cuzco, converted as a hotel since 1995, is one of the most beautiful hotels museum of Peru.
The Hotel is a national historic landmark and has maintained its characteristics and charm.
It is a splendid model of the colonial Renaissance style, comprising three sections at different levels .
The heart of the Hotel is the central courtyard with its soft fountain and a 300-year old Cedar tree surrounded by ...
Designed in 1992 by Tadao Ando, is both a hotel and a museum.
Located on a hill overlooking the sea, deep green vegetation and a deafening silence, with the mountains of Shikoku rising in the distance.
The hotel is connected to the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum.
The rooms, decorated with drawings, paintings and prints created by the artists whose works the museum collects, are available in four distinct styles are INFO:
Fax: +81 (87) 8922259
Who does not know the inventor of biomeccanoidi? Well we're talking about HR Giger. What better way to know his art if is not going to take a coffee in a bar designed entirely by him.
Made in the medieval castle of St. Germain, in the city of Gruyères in Switzerland.
The interior of the bar propels us into a new reality, skeletal structures with arches made of vertebrae, a surreal and gloomy atmosphere.
It 's ...
The Museo Pietro Canonica is a very important example of artist’s house museum in Italy. It is located in the most fascinating green lung of Rome, Villa Borghese and it belongs to the Roman's museum circuit “Musei in comune”.
The museum collection is based on many works by Pietro Canonica, including “La Veglia” (1901) and “L’Abisso” (1909), organized on the ground floor. The visiting route includes the first floor where there is the artist’s private apartment. This area ...
"Che c'è di Bello?", is the title of the events programme. It is a special invitation not only to all tourists, Italian and foreign, for whom the Vatican Museums are a must whilst in Rome, but also -and above all- to all the Roman public, normally too busy to visit the Museums during the day.
The Friday openings of the month of October will be enriched by a unique selection of ...
The American sculptor Keith Edmier (1967 born in Chicago - lives and works in New York) favours the narrative power of an identifiable realism over minimalism or abstraction. Before becoming an artist, he worked in films as a special-effect expert, and he uses these experiences in the images and metaphors he employs, sometimes to hyper-realistic effect, sometimes with biomorphic, surreal results.
He deliberately obstructs unambiguous interpretations of his sculptures, but it can be assumed that a ...
July 18–October 11, 2010
In the time between Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. Works from this period have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as an aberration within ...
Topkapı Palace constructed by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, (the Conqueror) in 1478 has been the official residence of the Otoman Sultans and center of State Administration around 380 years until the construction of Dolmabahçe Palace by Sultan Abdülmecid. The palace having around 700.000 m.² area during the foundation years has currently 80.000 m.² area.
Topkapı Palace was evacuated by the accommodation of the Palace inhabitants in Dolmabahçe, Yıldız and in other palaces. Upon abandoning by the Sultans, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
21 March, 2012 at 2:26 pm | on Museums
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 ...
