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Museum.
History museums are dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its importance to understanding the present and anticipating thefuture. They range from historic sites and small historic house museums to large, encyclopedic institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of AmericanHistory in Washington, D.C. Many cities and states have historical societies that operate museums or historic sites. History museums usually collect a wide range ofobjects, includi...
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Muséum national d'histoire naturelle [MNHN] - sciences et techniques.
3. 4 Les instituts de botanique et d’écologie – Le Centre d’écologie générale de Brunoy (Essonne), abrite deux équipes de recherche en écologie forestière et stratégie adaptative des organismes vivants. – Le Jardin botanique exotique de Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), créé vers 1895, enrichi d’essences nouvelles, subtropicales et tropicales, de végétaux rares et de plantes alimentaires, est aussi un lieu de recherches portant sur l’acclimatation de ces végétaux et l’histoire des paysages méditerranée...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art.
B Ancient Near Eastern Art The objects in this department range from a vast geographical area in southwest Asia and northeast Africa from around 5000 BC to around AD 600. Notable works include Assyrian reliefs from the palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Calah (now Nimrud, Iraq), Sumerian sculpture, Anatolian ivories, Iranian bronzes, and Achaemenidand Sassanian works in silver and gold. C Arms and Armor This department is renowned for its collection of European armor from the Middle Ages (5t...
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Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne) - beaux-arts.
Au deuxième étage, un espace est réservé aux expositions temporaires. Le Lipizzaner Museum du Stallburg et le château Ambras d’Innsbruck dépendent aussi du Kunsthistorisches Museum. Depuis le mois de janvier 2001, le musée d’Ethnologie et l’Austrian Theatre Museum lui sont également rattachés. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.
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Latin American Painting
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Diego Rivera Museum Gallery
The studio of Mexican painter Diego Rivera is now maintained as an art museum in Mexico City.
The Viceroy Arrives at PotosíThe discovery of silver on a hillside near the town of Potosí in 1545 turned this Bolivian city into a key Spanish possessionin the Americas. The population of Potosí shot up until it reached 150,000 inhabitants by the year 1611. The work shownhere, The Viceroy Arrives at Potosí, by 17th-century Bolivian painter Melchor Pérez de Holguín, was painted during thezenith of the town’s fortunes.Archivo Fotografico Oronoz From about 1580 to 1650 European styles became domin...
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- State Hermitage Museum.
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- American Museum of Natural History.
- National Air and Space Museum.
- National Museum of American History.
- National Museum of Natural History.
- British Museum - beaux-arts.
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art - beaux-arts.
11 ANTIQUITÉS GRECQUES ET ROMAINES Outre des œuvres grecques et romaines de l'époque classique, cette collection comprend des pièces issues des cultures chypriote, minoenne et mycénienne. 12 ART ISLAMIQUE Cette collection rassemble des objets provenant du monde islamique, du Maroc à l'Indonésie, pour la période allant du VII e au XXe siècle. 13 COLLECTION ROBERT LEHMAN Cette collection comprend des œuvres de la Renaissance et de l'époque classique ainsi que des toiles de peintres frança...
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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- Guggenheim Museum, New York - art.
- Description en allemand du Meuer-Museum à Berlin
- Whitney Museum of American Art - beaux-arts / musées.
- Victoria and Albert Museum - beaux-arts / musées.
- Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) - beaux-arts / musées.
- British Museum.
- le Getty Museum
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L'Afrique
par Théodore Monod
Professeur au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Un continent bien défendu.
par Théodore Monod Professeur au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
- Museum of Modern Art, The [MoMA] - beaux-arts / musées.
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Robert Motherwell
par Daniel Robbins
Assistant Curator, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
Robert Motherwell est incontestablement américain et il a été
profondément attaché aux tendances fondamentales de la peinture
américaine depuis le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
par Daniel Robbins Assistant Curator, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Smithsonian Institution.
F Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery houses a permanent collection of art from China, South and Southeast Asia, ancient and Islamic Iran, and Japan. Changing exhibitions ofAsian art are drawn from collections in the United States and abroad. The core of the collection was a gift from American research physician and medical publisherArthur M. Sackler. G Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Cooper-Hewitt is located in New York City and features examples of historical an...
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Moskau - geographie.
Jefimowitsch Repin. Das Puschkin-Museum der bildenden Künste zeigt neben Exponaten aus Altertum und Antike (u. a. aus Ägypten und Griechenland) auch Werke alterMeister wie Rembrandt sowie eine Sammlung französischer Expressionisten und Postexpressionisten. In der Rüstkammer ist eine Sammlung von Waffen, Rüstungen,Schmuck und Kirchenornaten der vergangenen sieben Jahrhunderte zu sehen. Herausragende historische Museen sind das Museum der Geschichte der Stadt Moskau, derPalast der Bojaren Romanow,...
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Berlin.
cours de la Nuit de cristal (novembre 1938). Ce quartier est également célèbre pour ses galeries d'art, ses cafés, ses bars et ses ateliers d'artistes. À proximité du lac de Wannsee s'étendent les quartiers résidentiels et bourgeois (Zehlendorf, Charlottenburg, Grünewald), tandis que les quartiers industriels et ouvriers selocalisent au nord (Siemensstadt et Reinickendorf) et au sud de la ville (Marienfelde, Rüdow). Situé à proximité de l'ancien mur, le quartier ouvrier de Kreuzberg accueilledep...
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Athens (Greece) - geography.
At the heart of the modern city is Syntagma (Constitution) Square, located east of the Acropolis. The square is bordered by the national Parliament Building, originally aroyal palace completed in 1842 for King Otto I. Nearby is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which features a daily changing of the guard. Several of the city’s principalhotels as well the offices of major banks and airline companies also face the square. Behind the Parliament Building is the National Gardens, a public park that i...
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Madrid - geography.
stores and offices on the first one or two levels. While many people rent their apartments, most own them and participate in cooperatives that maintain the building.Because living spaces are small by American standards, madrileños do most of their socializing in the streets, bars, restaurants, and parks of their neighborhoods. Onlya few very wealthy areas north of the city have single family houses with gardens and yards similar to those in American suburbs. Many of the newest neighborhoodsare c...
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Pablo Picasso - KUNSTLER.
8 NEOKLASSIZISMUS UND SURREALISMUS Zwischen 1917 und 1924 schuf Picasso sechs Bühnenbilder für Serge Diaghilews Balletts Russes und realistische Porträts seiner Frau, der dort engagierten Tänzerin OlgaKoklova (1918, Musée Picasso, Paris), später auch Bildnisse des gemeinsamen Sohnes ( Paulo als Harlequin, 1924, Musée Picasso) und zahlreicher Freunde. Neben skulptural wirkenden figuralen Kompositionen ( Drei Frauen am Brunnen, 1921, Museum of Modern Art) beherrschten antike mythologische Sujet...
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Paris (city, France) - geography.
and its vibrant public square, frequented by street performers, soon became among the most popular landmarks in the city. West of the Pompidou Center is Les Halles, the site of the central market of Paris from the 12th century until 1969. The market was subsequently replaced by the Forum LesHalles, a multilevel underground complex featuring a shopping mall, museums, the Paris film library ( vidéothèque ), and a sports center. The street level of Les Halles features a garden, the Jardin des Halle...
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St. Louis (city) - geography.
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St. Louis (city) or Saint Louis,
Between 1940 and 1990 the black population in metropolitan St. Louis nearly tripled. Blacks are most heavily concentrated in three areas in the St. Louis metropolitanregion: East Saint Louis, the North Side close to downtown, and an east-west belt extending from the waterfront to beyond Forest Park. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, areas to the north and south of the central business district were settled by immigrant working families from Germany, Ireland,and many Eastern European countrie...
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Hogarth, William - dessin & gravure.
William Hogarth est également un portraitiste de renom qui a bouleversé le genre pictural à maintes reprises. Il participe à l’introduction des « Conversations Pieces » en Angleterre avec le Mariage de Stephen Beckingham et de Mary Cox (1729-1730, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) ou la Famille Foutaine (1730, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie). Puis lorsqu’il réalise le Capitaine Coram (1740, Foundling Hospital, Londres), il marque un nouveau tournant dans l’art du portrait po...
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San Francisco - geography.
recognized symbol of the city, opened in 1937. It connects San Francisco to Marin County to the north, one of the wealthiest suburban areas in the nation. With the construction of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges and other links from the city to its suburbs, the San Francisco Bay area has become one large metropolitanregion. San Francisco itself is only 122 sq km (47 sq mi) of land area, but the city’s Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (defined by the Census Bureau as SanFrancisco, San Mateo,...
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Seattle - geography.
Mountains. The area includes the suburban cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, and Issaquah. The Eastside has become home to dozens of high-technologyindustries including Microsoft Corporation, ATL Ultrasound, Nintendo of America, divisions of The Boeing Company, and many other firms. In the 1960s commutersheaded to Seattle jobs from homes on the Eastside. Today, the “reverse commute” from Seattle homes to jobs on the Eastside is just as heavy, and both streams oftraffic cross the same...
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Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania) - geography.
national trend of migration from eastern cities to the warmer climate of the Sun Belt. Whereas in 1950 Philadelphia contained more than 2 million people and ranked as the third largest city in America, the city's population plunged to 1,517,550 by 2000.In 2006, the city's population was estimated at 1,448,394. While the city proper was decreasing in population, the metropolitan area centered on Philadelphia grew. In 2006 the region had 6.2 million inhabitants. Philadelphiaranked as the nation’s...
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Paris (city, France) - geography.
Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture, the arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century
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arts. III EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD Figures from Tell AsmarCreated around 2700 bc, these stone figures are from the city of Tell Asmar in what today is Iraq. From the Temple ofAbu, the statuettes stood in watchful prayer with the wide, staring eyes often found in Sumerian sculpture. The figuresare in the Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq.Art Resource, NY The first historical epoch of Sumerian dominance lasted from about 3000 BC until about 2340 BC. While earlier architectural traditions continued, a ne...
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Mexico City - geography.
The park houses some of Mexico's most important public buildings, including Chapultepec Castle. Construction of the castle began in 1783. Positioned on the park’shighest elevation, the castle functioned as a fortress during colonial times. It once served as the presidential residence and now houses the National Museum of History,which includes murals by 20th-century Mexican painter Juan O'Gorman. Los Pinos, the official residence and working offices of the president, is also on the grounds, buti...
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Bolivia - country.
E Plants and Animals Because of the wide variations in elevation, plant and animal species of nearly every climatic zone are found in Bolivia. A coarse grass, called ichu, grows on the largelybarren high plateau in the west. Para rubber trees, more than 2,000 species of hardwood trees, and vanilla, sarsaparilla, and saffron plants are common in the tropicalforests of the east. The llama, found chiefly on the Altiplano, is an efficient beast of burden. Alpacas and vicuñas also inhabit the platea...
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Montréal - geography.
percent), and Eastern Orthodox (2.8 percent) religions. Another 5.4 percent claim no religious affiliation. IV EDUCATION AND CULTURE Montréal has a large number of private schools, most of them partially funded by the province. Like the rest of Québec province, Montréal has two public schoolsystems, one for French speakers and one for English speakers. The Charter of the French Language (1977), known as Bill 101, restricts access to English-languageschools and requires children of immigrants t...
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Montréal - Geography.
percent), and Eastern Orthodox (2.8 percent) religions. Another 5.4 percent claim no religious affiliation. IV EDUCATION AND CULTURE Montréal has a large number of private schools, most of them partially funded by the province. Like the rest of Québec province, Montréal has two public schoolsystems, one for French speakers and one for English speakers. The Charter of the French Language (1977), known as Bill 101, restricts access to English-languageschools and requires children of immigrants t...
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Chicago (city, Illinois) - geography.
VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Chicago has one of the largest public school systems in the United States. The Chicago Board of Education administers the system in a centralized fashion; in recentyears it has been experimenting with local school councils as a means of partial devolution of authority. These councils, established in 1989, have authority in severalareas, including the ability to approve budgets and curriculum. In addition, Chicago has many private schools, including larg...
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Kansas City (Missouri) - geography.
Major institutions of higher education in Kansas City are a branch (established in 1929) of the University of Missouri, Avila College (1916), Rockhurst College (1910),DeVry Institute of Technology (Missouri) (1931), and the Kansas City Art Institute (1885). Schools in neighboring suburbs include Park University (1875), in Parkville,and William Jewell College (1849), in Liberty. Baptist, Nazarene, and Methodist theological schools are also located in the area. Midwest Research Institute, one of t...
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Berlin.
Kunsthochschule (1975). Kulturelle Veranstaltungen wie die Internationalen Filmfestspiele und das Berliner Jazzfest genießen international hohes Ansehen. DerRundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) mit Sitz in Berlin und Potsdam ist die größte regionale Sendeanstalt. Sie ging 2003 aus der Fusion von Sender Freies Berlin (SFB)und Ostdeutschem Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) hervor. 4.3 Sehenswürdigkeiten Das wieder zugängliche Brandenburger Tor (1788-1791), das den Propyläen auf der Akropolis in Athen nache...