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The museum's collection of footwear originated from the personal collections of Sonja Bata, started in the mid-1940s. In 1979, Bata provided an endowment to create the Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, with the aim of having the collection professionally managed, and to establish a shoe museum to house, store, and exhibit the collection.
Maxim's Art Nouveau "Collection 1900", also known as the Musée Art Nouveau - Maxim's, is a private collection of Art Nouveau objects and decor, located in the 8th arrondissement above Maxim's Paris restaurant at 3, Rue Royale, Paris, France. It is open for guided tours in afternoons except Monday and Tuesday; an admission fee is charged.
Seven Nights (French: Moderato cantabile) is a 1960 French drama film directed by Peter Brook. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival , where Jeanne Moreau won the award for Best Actress . [ 3 ]
The museum's permanent collection includes over 120,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. [4] The museum collection includes a number works from Canadian, First Nations, Inuit, African, European, and Oceanic artists. In addition to exhibits for its collection, the museum has organized and hosted many travelling art exhibitions.
Palais Royale is a dance hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on Lake Shore Boulevard at the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue on Lake Ontario. Originally built as a boat works, it became notable as a night club in the now-defunct Sunnyside Amusement Park, hosting many prominent 'big band' jazz bands. Since the Park's demolition, the building ...
The area was also home to most of the nightclubs in downtown Toronto but have mostly moved to King St west of Spadina Av just beside the Entertainment District. The Toronto Entertainment District is represented by Ward 10 Spadina—Fort York along with the federal and provincial ridings of Spadina—Fort York and the postal codes are M5H, M5V ...
Among the collection's items are the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), and Newton's Principia (1687). Contrary to widespread internet claims, [5] [6] the library does not have Darwin's proof copy with annotations of On the Origin of Species (1859); the library does however have annotated proof sheets of: The Power of Movement in Plants, [7] The Expression of the ...
Jupiter and Io by Correggio, one of the few paintings to leave the Orleans Collection before the French Revolution.(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700 and his death in 1723. [1]