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British Thomson-Houston

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This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( December 2012 ) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) British Thomson-Houston BTH logo on an electric motor access plate Industry Heavy industrial Founded 1886 as Laing, Wharton and Down Headquarters Rugby, Warwickshire Parent General Electric British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England and founded as a subsidiary of the General Electric Company (GE) of Schenectady, New York, USA. They were known primarily for their electrical systems and steam turbines. BTH was taken into British ownership and amalgamated with the similar Metropolitan-Vickers company in 1928 to form Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), but the two brand identities were maintained until ...

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

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National Gallery of Ancient Art Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica Established 1893 Location via delle Quattro Fontane, 13 (Palazzo Barberini) Via della Lungara 10 (Palazzo Corsini) Rome, Italy Coordinates 41°54′13″N 12°29′25″E  /  41.903611°N 12.490278°E  / 41.903611; 12.490278 Visitors 153,549 [1] Director Flaminia Gennari Santori Website http://www.barberinicorsini.org/ Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes The exhibition in the Palazzo Corsini The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (GNAA) , or National Gallery of Ancient Art , is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, the main national collection of older (broadly, pre-1800) paintings in Rome. It has two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini. [2] The Palazzo Barberini was designed for Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family, by 16th century Italian architect Carlo Maderno on the old location of Villa Sforza. Its central salon ceiling was decorated by Pie...

Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo

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Sant'Alessandro della Croce is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Pignolo in Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. The facade of the church History The church was erected in 1675 at the site of a prior church. The design is attributed to the Trezzini family. The church was complete by 1737, but the facade was not only complete until 1922, in a project by Virgilio Muzio. Among the works inside the church is a Coronation of the Virgin (1576) by Giovanni Battista Moroni, and canvases by Giovanni Paolo Cavagna and Enea Salmeggia (1621). A canvas of St Carlo Borromeo tending those afflicted with plague (1720) by Giovanni Battista Parodi. The decoration of the Chapel of Suffragio (1730) was painted by Sebastiano Ricci, who depicted St Gregory the Great intercedes with the Virgin . The chapel was also has a canvas by Cignaroli depicting Story of Judas Maccabee (1743). Cignaroli also painted a large Deposition (1745) located in the right transept; Giova...

Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo

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Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano Religion Affiliation Roman Catholic Location Location Bergamo, Italy Geographic coordinates Coordinates: 45°41′45″N 9°40′18″E  /  45.69583°N 9.67153°E  / 45.69583; 9.67153 Architecture Architect(s) Anton Maria Caneva Architectural type Church Architectural style Renaissance Groundbreaking 1642 Specifications Direction of façade 1613 Length 60 meters Width 14 meters Pala Martinengo by Lorenzo Lotto Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Largo Belotti #1 in Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church is associated with a Dominican convent; and stands about a block away from the Teatro Donizetti. History The church was built in 1613-1642, adjacent to a monastery of San Bartolomeo, which had belonge to the religious order of the Humiliati . After this order was suppressed, this convent was granted to the Dominicans, with whom it remains associated today...

Polyptych

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This article is about the art format. For the medieval document concerning lands, see Polyptych (document). Opened view of the Ghent Altarpiece : Jan van Eyck (1432). There is a different view when the wings are closed. A polyptych ( / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ p t ɪ k / POL -ip-tik ; Greek: poly- "many" and ptychē "fold") is a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Specifically, a "diptych" is a two-part work of art; a "triptych" is a three-part work; a tetraptych or quadriptych has four parts; pentaptych five; hexaptych six; heptaptych (or septych in Latin) seven; and octaptych eight parts. Polyptychs typically display one "central" or "main" panel that is usually the largest of the attachments, while the other panels are called "side" panels, or "wings". Sometimes, as evident in the Ghent and Isenheim works, the hinged panels can be varied in arrangement to show...

Jerome Corsi

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Jerome Corsi Born Jerome Robert Corsi ( 1946-08-31 ) August 31, 1946 (age 72) East Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Education Case Western Reserve University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) Occupation Writer Known for Co-author of Unfit for Command Author of The Obama Nation Political party Constitution [ citation needed ] Spouse(s) Joy Dugan (Divorced) Monica Corsi Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist. [1] [2] His two New York Times best-selling books, Unfit for Command (2004) and The Obama Nation (2008), attacked Democratic presidential candidates and have been criticized for including numerous inaccuracies. [3] [4] [5] In other books and columns for conservative sites such as WorldNetDaily and Human Events , Corsi has discussed conspiracy theories, such as the alleged plans for a North American government; the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama is not a Uni...