Category Archives: Ornament

Second floor, Museum of the Shots of Granada

The rooms are dedicated to the development of a graphic museum of the history of Granada, very much in line with the local museums which were being set up around this time in Spain. The promoter or architect of this first museological and museographical project was Antonio Gallego Burín, who…

Second floor, Museum of the Shots of Granada

Kacho no Ma, Akasaka Palace

The name Kacho no Ma (Hall of Flowers and Birds) originates in the oil paintings on the ceiling and the cloisonné panels on the walls, all with floral and avian themes. This was once the banquet hall, and is still used mainly for state banquets as well as for press…

Kacho no Ma, Akasaka Palace

Ceramics gallery, Boshan Ceramics and Colored Glaze Art Museum

Boshan Ceramics colored glaze Art Museum was established in April 2006 and officially opened in September 2007. It is divided into the Ceramics Museum and the colored glaze Museum. The colored glaze Museum is located in Xie Street, Boshan District, covering an area of 2600 square meters. The company’s courtyard…

Ceramics gallery, Boshan Ceramics and Colored Glaze Art Museum

Renli colored glaze gallery, Boshan Colored Glaze Museum

Renli colored glaze gallery is a glazed art museum in China that mainly collects high-end handmade art. It has a collection of more than 3,000 fine works, including all traditional categories such as interior painting, lampwork, sculpture, and precious materials. The total construction area of Renli Ceramic Glaze Experience Museum…

Renli colored glaze gallery, Boshan Colored Glaze Museum

East Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Rooms in Renaissance style, was designed as a hall of honor, intended to contain some of the most important works of the collection. Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli could not see it finished and Bertini continued its decoration after the death of the museum founder. Golden Hall The Golden Hall is…

East Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum

West Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum

This environment was conceived as a scenic entrance to the apartment of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli using an ancient baroque staircase already present in the palace decorated with eight monumental sandstone statues placed in niches, the work of a Milanese sculptor of the eighteenth century. To emphasize the Baroque style…

West Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum

The collector and his collection, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

The collector and the collection on the Ground Floor. Part of the collections that Don José Lázaro Galdiano donated to the State is exhibited in the museum. The ground floor of the museum was original use as warehouse, having been reformed to receive today part of the exhibition. The rooms…

The collector and his collection, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

The Collector’s Cabinet, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

The collector’s cabinet on the third floor, in which coins, textiles, weapons, medals, ivories, enamels are exhibited… In short, and as the name of this floor says, the rooms that we will see next gather a sample of all those collections. Due to the large amount that José Lázaro Galdiano…

The Collector’s Cabinet, Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Galleria Cini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

In the Cini Gallery there is the precious collection of porcelain donated to the Capitoline Museums by Count Francesco Cini in 1881, increased over time by other donations of European and Oriental porcelain. On the walls are European paintings from the 16th-18th centuries and the Antwerp tapestry series with the…

Galleria Cini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

Vojtěch Lanna Collection, Museum of Decorative Arts In Prague

Vojtěch (Adalbert) Lanna Jr. (1836–1909) was the most illustrious member of his family that had arrived in Bohemia from Upper Austria in the 18th century. His father, Vojtěch Lanna Sr. (1805–1866) was one of the founders of Czech industry, he was a businessman in the lumber trade, transport construction, river…

Vojtěch Lanna Collection, Museum of Decorative Arts In Prague

Oil Painting: Concern to People’s Livelihood, Xu beihong: Living Art Forever, China Central Academy of Fine Arts

As we all know, Xu Beihong’s greatest contribution to Chinese art was that after studying in France in 1919, he introduced oil painting and sketching systems to China through schooling, education, and communication, and established a modern art education system. The exhibition established the artistic standpoint of Xu Beihong’s oil…

Oil Painting: Concern to People’s Livelihood, Xu beihong: Living Art Forever, China Central Academy of Fine Arts

Living Rooms, Cau Ferrat Museum

Cau Ferrat Museum is the former house and studio of painter, dramatist and collector Santiago Rusiñol. Rusiñol brought his art collection from his Barcelona studio to exhibit it in this house. When he died in 1931, aged seventy, the town of Sitges inherited the house and collections. Rusiñol came to…

Living Rooms, Cau Ferrat Museum

The Great Hall, Cau Ferrat Museum

On entering the Great Hall, visitors seeing it for the first time are usually struck with the same sensation as when entering a sacred precinct. Indeed, Rusiñol arranged everything in such a way that the Great Hall would resemble a temple of art. The height of the magnificent coffered ceiling,…

The Great Hall, Cau Ferrat Museum

In Search of a Modern Style, Vienna 1900, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna

The search for a modern Austrian style during the years between 1890 and 1900 went hand in hand with the emancipation from Historicism. The objects exhibited in this gallery are largely contemporary acquisitions of products from abroad, especially from the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, and Germany, Japan, where successful steps…

In Search of a Modern Style, Vienna 1900, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna

Glass Collection of Renaissance Baroque Rococo, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna

The Museum of Applied Arts’s collection of lace, and its holdings of glassware—especially Venetian glass—are considered among the finest and most varied in the world. Even in the Baroque period, Venetian glasswork was particularly treasured, and both men and women spent vast sums on the sumptuous lace decoration that fashion…

Glass Collection of Renaissance Baroque Rococo, Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna

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