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BU Castle. Coordinates: 42.3509°N 71.1037°W. The BU Castle on Bay State Road. The Boston University Castle (or BU Castle or simply "The Castle") is a Tudor Revival -style mansion owned by Boston University on Bay State Road. [1] The school typically uses it for receptions or concerts, but also rents out The Castle to cater events and special ...
Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 photographs.
Boston University's housing system is the nation's 10th largest among four-year colleges. BU was originally a commuter school, but the university now guarantees the option of on-campus housing for four years for all undergraduate students. Currently, 76 percent of the undergraduate population lives on campus.
Beaux-Arts architecture (/ boʊz ˈɑːr / bohz AR, French: [boz‿aʁ] ⓘ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Renaissance and Baroque elements, and used modern ...
Designated NHL. February 24, 1986. Designated CP. August 14, 1973. The McKim Building is the main branch of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, described upon its 1895 opening as a "palace for the people", contains the library's research collection, exhibition rooms, and administrative offices.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited ...
Function rules at Massachusetts Hall at Harvard University, 1718-20 Classically proportioned 19th century Georgian manor house, Throckley Hall (1820). Principal elevation, South Wing. Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
Polish Renaissance architecture is divided into three periods: The first period (1500–50) is the so-called "Italian" as most of Renaissance buildings of this time were designed by Italian architects, mainly from Florence, including Francesco Fiorentino and Bartolomeo Berrecci.