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Peñíscola (en castillan) ou Peníscola (en valencien), officiellement Peníscola/Peñíscola1, est une commune au nord de la Communauté valencienne en Espagne. Elle appartient à la Province de Castellón et plus précisément au district de Vinaroz, dans la comarque du Baix Maestrat (nom valencien, Bajo Maeztrazgo en castillan). La langue dominante officielle est le valencien.
À la fin du Grand Schisme d'Occident, l'antipape Benoît XIII (Pedro de Luna, dit le cardinal d'Aragon) exclu d'Avignon d'où il régnait sur une partie de la chrétienté et qui n'était plus toléré que par l'Aragon s'y installa et y mourut après 19 années de résistance à Rome.
Peñíscola (Peníscola en valenciano, y oficialmente Peníscola/Peñíscola) es un municipio de la Comunidad Valenciana, España, situado en la costa norte de la provincia de Castellón, en la comarca del Bajo Maestrazgo. Cuenta con una población de 8.094 habitantes (INE 2011). Posee título de Ciudad desde 1707.
Desde enero de 2013, Peñíscola forma parte de la red Los pueblos más bonitos de España
Peníscola (Valencian: [peˈniskola]) or Peñíscola (Spanish: [peˈɲiskola]), anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
Peníscola (Valencian: [peˈniskola]) or Peñíscola (Spanish: [peˈɲiskola]), anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
Peñíscola (Peníscola en valenciano, y oficialmente Peníscola/Peñíscola)3 es un municipio de la Comunidad Valenciana, España, situado en la costa norte de la provincia de Castellón, en la comarca del Bajo Maestrazgo. Cuenta con una población de 8.094 habitantes (INE 2011). Posee título de Ciudad desde 1707.
Desde enero de 2013, Peñíscola forma parte de la red Los pueblos más bonitos de España
Peñíscola (en castillan) ou Peníscola (en valencien), officiellement Peníscola/Peñíscola1, est une commune au nord de la Communauté valencienne en Espagne. Elle appartient à la Province de Castellón et plus précisément au district de Vinaroz, dans la comarque du Baix Maestrat (nom valencien, Bajo Maeztrazgo en castillan). La langue dominante officielle est le valencien.
À la fin du Grand Schisme d'Occident, l'antipape Benoît XIII (Pedro de Luna, dit le cardinal d'Aragon) exclu d'Avignon d'où il régnait sur une partie de la chrétienté et qui n'était plus toléré que par l'Aragon s'y installa et y mourut après 19 années de résistance à Rome.
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WECON Technology Co.Ltd is a industrial automation manufacturer.Wecon's main products are hmi and plc.The products applied in many industrial solutions.Wecon products make industrial control more precise and easy,and CE FCC passed.Wecon owned technology team and industrial factory.
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Large tomb to the Lockhart Ramsays and it has an unusually precise set of measurements carved into it - look at the close up on the next pic...
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Seen in New Hedges, near Tenby. The reason it's so accurate is that on the other side of the milepost, there's a precise measurement to the mile to Narberth.
Faster and more precise, - this is today's reality on the construction site.
Every project is a race against time and space. The installations are designed in increasingly narrow spaces and the expectations of quality and durability are increasing. This is why we used Sikla basic elements for fixing the fixed point on our client's construction site - a solution that perfectly suits the requirements of modern construction.
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Kilmallie Parish / Banavie War Memorial
More precise NGR NN 10875 76986
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Many local war memorials have been recently cleaned so came to see if this one had been cleaned but does not seem to have had any work done on it
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TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THESE LOCHABER MEN WHO DIED
FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914- 1916
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MJR. E.S. GOOCH, TORCASTLE, BERKS YEOMANRY
TPR. A. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, SCOTTISH HORSE
Q.M.S. J. CAMERON, MUIRSHEARLICH, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. J. MACSALMAN, BANAVUIE, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. A. CAMERON, GLENLOY, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. A. CAMERON, GUISACHAN, LOVAT SCOUTS
GUNR. D. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, ARG.MTN.BTY.
PTE. D. CAMERON, CAOL, ROYAL SCOTS.
PTE. A. DONALDSON, MOUNT, K.O.S.B.
PTE. J. ROY DALZIEL, GUISACHAN, SCOTTISH RFLS.
PTE. A. GILLIES, LOCHY-SIDE, SCOTTISH RFLS.
L/CPL. A. CAMERON, BRAINCHAMUS, BLACK WATCH
L/CPL. J. GILMOUR, BLAICH, BLACK WATCH
SERGT. D. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, SEAFORTH HDRS.
L/CPL. J. GRAY, BANAVIE, SEAFORTH HDRS.
L/CPL. E. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, GORDON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACPHERSON, MUIRSHEARLICH, GORDON HDRS.
CAPT. A. CAMERON. OF LOCHIEL, CAMERON HDRS.
LIEUT. ARCHD. CAMERON. OF LOCHIEL, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. P.A. SHAND, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACDONALD, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. H. MACCULLOCH, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. R. BAKER, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. P. MACDONALD, PUTACHAN, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACLENNAN, GLEN-KINGIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. B. SUTHERLAND, GLEN-KINGIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. D. CAMPBELL, GAIRLOCHY,, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACMASTER, MUIRSHEARLICH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. R.R.S. CRAWFORD, MANSE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACKENZIE, CORPACH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. D. MACMILLAN, CORPACH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACINTYRE, TRISLAIG, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. CAMPBELL, BADABRIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACLAREN, ARDECHIVE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. CAMERON, ACHAPHUBLE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. CAMERON, GLENMAILLIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACLAREN, GLENFINNAN, CAMERON HDRS.
L/CPL. N. MARTIN, BANAVIE, ARG. & SUTHD. HDRS.
PTE. A.C. CAMERON, GLENMAILLIE, M.C.G.
PTE. M. COLQUHOUN, CORPACH, R.A.M.C.
PTE. J. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, R.A.M.C.
PTE. J. MACMASTER, FASSFERN, CANADIAN SFTHS.
D. GILLIES, LOCHY=SIDE, TRANSPORT
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"BITHIDH AN CLIU BUAN"
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1939 - 1945
A.B. T. ALEXANDER, TOMONIE, R.N.
A.B. J. MACDONALD, CORPACH, R.N.
A.B. D. ROBERTSON, CORPACH, R.N.
SGT. A. MACINTOSH, CORPACH, R.A.F.
PTE. D. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, R.A.S.C.
PTE. K. MACDONALD, ACHNACARRY, CAM. HRS.
PTE. P. WILSON, TOMONIE, CAM. HRS.
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ID:MHG52984
Type of record:Monument
Name:Banavie War Memorial, Fort William
Grid Reference:NN 10871 76995
Map Sheet:NN17NW
Civil Parish:KILMALLIE
Geographical Area:LOCHABER
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Site Type WAR MEMORIAL (20TH CENTURY)
Canmore ID 318842
Site Number NN17NW 63
NGR NN 10871 76994
Council HIGHLAND
Parish KILMALLIE
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District LOCHABER
Former County INVERNESS-SHIRE
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The precise identity of these women is unknown but they have traditionally been associated with the Lake family of Cannons house and estate in Middlesex, later the property of the Duke of Chandos. Portraits of women by Lely, like this one, tend to conform to the standards of ideal beauty which were current at court. In such paintings, the artist was more concerned with asserting a sense of glamour and sophistication than conveying individual personalities. The woman on the left is shown playing a French-made guitar, the latest fashion to arrive from Paris.
The precise spot where Jesus was crucified is covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Contrary to the hymn “There is a Green Hill Far Away” it was, in fact, above a quarry. You can see the bare stone to the lower right, now under plate glass.
to be precise
It was made on May 21st, 2021
It's also a piece of art
It's already 3-4 years old
I did a remake
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PHILIPS
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32PHT6815/94
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2021
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71.9 x 45.7 x 17.6 cm; 4 Kilograms
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32PHT6815/94
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4 GB
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1.5 GB
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SAPHI
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USB, HDMI
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Mali G52 @ 700 MHz
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DVB-T/T2
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20 Milliseconds
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1366
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Pixel Precise HD | HDR10 | Full HD | SAPHI OS | Supported Applications : Netflix, Youtube, Prime Video, Zee5, Eros Now
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1
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One Click With Netflix and YouTube Button for easy access
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IR
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LED
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32 Inches
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LED
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178 Degrees
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16:09
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200 nits
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200000:1
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BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG
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1366 x 768 pixels
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1366x768 Pixels
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Surround
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Aac, Mp3_audio
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Dolby Audio
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12 Watts
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12 Watts
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AC
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No
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2
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William Stanley Haseltine - American, 1835 - 1900
Narragansett Bay, 1864
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 64
We look out across a band of broad, craggy boulders at an ocean bay dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the flat boulders are caramel brown in the sunlight and darker, rust-brown shadows down the sides. Smoke-gray fissures create web-like crevices across their surfaces. A few rocks sit atop the boulders, and a glassy pool created in a shallow near the lower right corner reflects the pale blue sky. The water beyond is a blend of aquamarine blue and bottle green with choppy waves that break and spray up white against the boulders. Two people wearing straw-colored hats are near the water on the far side of the boulders. One wears a red shirt, brown pants, and holds out a fishing rod. A basket sits near his feet nearby. Just to our left, a woman wearing a rose-pink dress sits and seems to look off into the distance. One sailboat is at the center of the composition in the distance, and several, even smaller touches of ivory-white along the horizon suggest more sailboats almost out of sight. Also hazy in the far distance, a finger of sand-brown land topped with pale, sage-green growth extends about halfway across the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. A few light gray clouds drift across the sky, which lightens from powder blue across the top to nearly white along the horizon. Several white birds with black wing tips fly over the water. The artist initialled and dated the lower left, “W.S.H 64.”
In 1953 Helen Haseltine Plowden, the daughter of William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900), gave the National Gallery of Art one of her father's earliest oil studies, Marina Piccola, Capri, 1858. In 1991, in honor of the Gallery's fiftieth anniversary, Guest Services Corporation gave the museum Haseltine's stunningly beautiful Natural Arch at Capri, 1871. Until 2010, the Gallery's collection did not include one of Haseltine's celebrated American "rock portraits"—the geologically precise views of New England's rocky coast that brought the artist his earliest acclaim. This previously unknown view of Narragansett Bay, completed in 1864, fills that gap. In pristine condition, unlined, and on its original stretcher, the painting is a gift of Alexander and Judith Laughlin.
William Stanley Haseltine was born in Philadelphia, the son of a successful businessman and an amateur landscape painter. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard College, he studied with German-born artist Paul Weber before traveling in 1855 to Düsseldorf where he quickly joined the large contingent of young American artists already drawn to the city by its famous art academy. In 1858, before returning to Philadelphia, Haseltine undertook an extensive sketching trip along the southern coast of Italy. For an artist who would later gain fame for his views of coastal New England, the experience of sketching the rugged cliffs of Capri and the vertiginous rock walls near Sorrento and Amalfi served as near-perfect preparation.
Shortly after his return to the United States, Haseltine moved to New York City, took a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building, and set out on a summer sketching tour along the New England coast. In the fall he returned to New York with a portfolio of plein-air studies—the raw material he would use to create studio paintings during the winter months. Shortly after he began exhibiting his meticulously rendered coastal views, critics praised the paintings, declaring that science and art were equally well served in such works. At a time when art critic John Ruskin was preaching "truth to nature" and Harvard's Louis Agassiz was extolling the wonders of geology in public lectures, Haseltine's rock portraits found an audience already keenly aware of the ancient story told by New England's coastal rocks.
Narragansett Bay is a superb example of Haseltine's best work. Foreground rocks shelter still pools of water as waves break against more distant boulders. Two figures are visible near the center of the composition—a seated woman and a man with a fishing pole. In the middle distance, sailboats skim the waves, and on the far shore is the granite tower of Beavertail Lighthouse. At the horizon, in the far distance, is Newport. In the American galleries, Narragansett Bay joins equally accomplished works by Haseltine's friends and contemporaries John Frederick Kensett, John La Farge, and Alfred Thompson Bricher.
William Stanley Haseltine was born in Philadelphia on June 11, 1835, the son of John Haseltine, a successful businessman, and his wife Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an amateur landscape painter. After two years of study at the University of Pennsylvania, he entered Harvard University in 1852, receiving his degree two years later. He studied painting briefly in 1854 with Paul Weber, a German landscape and portrait painter who had settled in Philadelphia. In the spring of 1855 Haseltine made his public debut as an artist, exhibiting several paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. That summer he journeyed to Düsseldorf, where he joined the colony of young American painters studying landscape painting at the Academy. In 1856 Haseltine joined Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) and a group of fellow students on an extended sketching trip up the Rhine and into Switzerland and Italy. Although in January 1857 Haseltine returned to Düsseldorf, he was back in Italy by the summer and settled in Rome in the fall. During the winter of 1857-1858 and the spring of 1858 he made numerous sketching tours in the environs of Rome and also visited the island of Capri.
In the late summer or early fall of 1858 Haseltine abruptly returned to Philadelphia. By November of the following year he had moved to New York and taken a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building, which was the center of American landscape school in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Among the painters Haseltine joined in the Studio Building were Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Whittredge, the latter two acquaintances from his European travels. Haseltine now began to establish a reputation as a landscape painter, showing his works regularly at exhibitions in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Many of his works of these years were based on sketches completed abroad, but he also made use of studies made on his travels to popular seaside resorts in New England. Among his favorite subjects were Maine's Mount Desert Island and the shore areas around Narragansett, Rhode Island, and Nahant, Massachusetts. These landscapes and coastal scenes were generally well received, with critics praising in particular his geological accuracy in depicting the distinctive rock formations of the New England coast. In 1860 Haseltine was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design; he was made a full Academician the following year.
Personal tragedy struck in 1864 when Haseltine's wife died in childbirth. In February 1866 the artist remarried and in May he and his family departed for Europe. He considered settling in Paris, but by 1867 he had joined the large international art colony in Rome, which would remain his base for much of the next thirty years. Haseltine's paintings of European views, especially his landscapes and coastal views of Italian scenery, proved extremely popular with wealthy American tourists who were travelling abroad in ever-increasing numbers in the years after the Civil War. In the fall of 1874 Haseltine located his studio in a grand setting at the Palazzo Altieri, which he opened to visitors and potential patrons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This was a common practice among artists working in Rome, which had only a few contemporary art galleries and scant opportunities for public exhibition.
From his home in Rome, Haseltine often travelled to other areas of Italy and Europe, including Venice, Capri, Sicily, Paris, Cannes, Belgium, Holland, and the Netherlands. During the 1880s and 1890s, he and his family often spent summers in Bavaria and the Tyrol. Sketches made during these trips frequently served as the basis for later paintings and watercolors, with his scenes of Capri and Sicily proving very popular with tourists. Haseltine also made periodic trips back to the United States, especially during the 1890s. In the summer of 1899 he and his son, Herbert, made a trip west, visiting Utah, Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Banff, and Yellowstone Park. This was his last trip to the states; a few months after his return to Europe in the fall, he contracted pneumonia and died in Rome on February 3, 1900.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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A precise grid of round bulbs fills the entire backdrop wall, glowing in an even alternation of magenta, violet, and warm white, the same light source seen scattered and blurred in the lobby now revealed as a fully engineered stage set. Centered low in the frame, a single microphone stand rises from a small step stool, flanked by a music stand and a scatter of cables and pedals on the floor, everything staged and waiting for a musician who hasn't arrived yet.
The empty stage is doing real narrative work here: a performance space photographed between sets carries a different kind of tension than one caught mid-show, all potential energy and none of the noise. Symmetry in the light grid emphasizes the emptiness at center stage, drawing the eye first to the pattern and only then down to the human-scaled gear waiting in front of it.
KEXP built its reputation on exactly this kind of intimate, camera-ready live session space, small enough to feel like a rehearsal room, dressed with just enough production value to read as a stage. A shot of the room in this quiet, pre-performance state says as much about the station's identity as any photo of a band actually playing, the machinery of live radio caught holding its breath.