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The Oskar Reinhart Collection is one of the leading private art collections built up in the 20th century. It comprises around 200 works by European artists spanning the period from late Gothic to the threshold of modern art, with particular emphasis on 19th century French painting. Born in Winterthur in 1885, Oskar Reinhart was the youngest son of Theodor Reinhart and his wife Lilly, née Volkart. His father ran the trading company of Volkart Bros., which had been founded in Winterthur in 1851. The two main formative influences on the young Oskar Reinhart were his training as a businessman and the exposure to the arts he received in his parents' home. His father was the patron of several well-known Swiss artists and Oskar's elder brother, Georg, started collecting works of art at an early age. Oskar Reinhart withdrew from the family business in 1924 in order to devote himself entirely to his activities as a collector. He chose as his place of residence the villa "Am Römerholz" built by Maurice Turrettini in 1915, commissioning the same architect to add a gallery for his collection. As time passed, he had the idea of giving the city of Winterthur the works by 18th to early 20th century German, Swiss and Austrian artists that have been displayed in the Oskar Reinhart Museum am Stadtgarten since 1951. When he died in 1965, he bequeathed the remaining part of his collection and his house "Am Römerholz" to the Swiss Confederation, which opened them to the public in 1970. Text from: www.insecula.com/us/musee/M0223.html For a NY Times article written in 1993 on Winterthur: query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DE173BF936A...

The [archaeological] museum [in Giardini-Naxos, Sicily] is next to the ancient Greek town area. Open from 9am up to an hour before sunset. The Museum is close to Capo Schisò and the modern harbour of Giardini Naxos, on the border with the archaeological area of the ancient town of Naxos, which can also be reached from the museum itself, through an exhibition route, which partly following an important road of the 5th c. BC, takes you up to the western side of the walls. The museum is divided into three buildings, two of which are dedicated to the exhibition. Building "A" was constructed in the 70s when the museum was founded, and building "B", the embattled tower of the Bourbon blockhouse, whose large pieces of walls still stand. The museum illustrates the history of the Greek colony of Naxos, also considering the prehistorical evidences which prove the human presence in the site from the Neolithic up to the arrival of the Greeks, as well as the findings within the territory (Cocolonazzo di Mola, Monaci cave, Fiumedenisi, Malvagna). Naxos was founded in 734 BC by the Calcidians, who had sailed from the Greek island of Eubea led by Theocles. The town, developed along the route which boats coming from Eubea followed to reach Ischia to trade with the Etruscans, was the heart of the Calcidian spread in Sicily, and from here Theocles moved to found Leontinoi and Katane. The history of the town, marked by the rivalry with the powerful Siracusa, was quite short and it disappeared in three centuries, when it was destroyed by Dionysius of Siracusa in 403 BC. The collections are mostly composed of finds from the excavations which have been carried since 1953 in the site of the ancient colony. A few materials found at the turn of the century come from the Archaelogical Museums of Palermo and Siracusa, and very recently, from Heildeberg University Museum which receded a fragment of arula with sphinxes, bought in 1902 by F. von Duhn in Taormina and perfectly reconnected to the one exhibited in Naxos. The large number of handmade pottery is evidence of the different phases of life in the town, its commercial relations and its material culture. The figured and architectural terracottas, the antefixes with Silenian masks attest the thriving of a sacred monumental architecture at the beginning of the 6th c., as well as the presence of lively workshops which produced terracotta objects. Various artefacts are evidence of settlements along the coast dated back to the Byzantine period. Other items found in this area are also displayed, such as the beautiful bronze helmet made in Moio, in the Alcantara Valley, during the Hellenistic period. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to underwater findings, such as several anchor stocks and some transport amphoras. The arrangement follows chronological criteria Ground floor - The prehistoric period - Items found at the turn of the last century - The oldest phase of the colonial settlement: late-geometrical ceramic materials of Corinthian and Eubeian-cicladian productions, as well as imitations; outfits found in the northern necropolis; archaic transport amphoras of different production, all reutilized as graves First floor - Coins dated back to the 5th c. BC from the northern district of the town - The sacred areas of the town: architectural covers and antefixes with Silenian masks - The archaic and classic settlement, the necropoli of the 5th c. BC, and those of the Hellenistic period (3rd c. BC) Embattled tower of the Bourbon blockhouse - Underwater finds (anchor stocks, millstones, amphoras) Text and more information about individual artifacts from: www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/musei/mu...

The [archaeological] museum [in Giardini-Naxos, Sicily] is next to the ancient Greek town area. Open from 9am up to an hour before sunset. The Museum is close to Capo Schisò and the modern harbour of Giardini Naxos, on the border with the archaeological area of the ancient town of Naxos, which can also be reached from the museum itself, through an exhibition route, which partly following an important road of the 5th c. BC, takes you up to the western side of the walls. The museum is divided into three buildings, two of which are dedicated to the exhibition. Building "A" was constructed in the 70s when the museum was founded, and building "B", the embattled tower of the Bourbon blockhouse, whose large pieces of walls still stand. The museum illustrates the history of the Greek colony of Naxos, also considering the prehistorical evidences which prove the human presence in the site from the Neolithic up to the arrival of the Greeks, as well as the findings within the territory (Cocolonazzo di Mola, Monaci cave, Fiumedenisi, Malvagna). Naxos was founded in 734 BC by the Calcidians, who had sailed from the Greek island of Eubea led by Theocles. The town, developed along the route which boats coming from Eubea followed to reach Ischia to trade with the Etruscans, was the heart of the Calcidian spread in Sicily, and from here Theocles moved to found Leontinoi and Katane. The history of the town, marked by the rivalry with the powerful Siracusa, was quite short and it disappeared in three centuries, when it was destroyed by Dionysius of Siracusa in 403 BC. The collections are mostly composed of finds from the excavations which have been carried since 1953 in the site of the ancient colony. A few materials found at the turn of the century come from the Archaelogical Museums of Palermo and Siracusa, and very recently, from Heildeberg University Museum which receded a fragment of arula with sphinxes, bought in 1902 by F. von Duhn in Taormina and perfectly reconnected to the one exhibited in Naxos. The large number of handmade pottery is evidence of the different phases of life in the town, its commercial relations and its material culture. The figured and architectural terracottas, the antefixes with Silenian masks attest the thriving of a sacred monumental architecture at the beginning of the 6th c., as well as the presence of lively workshops which produced terracotta objects. Various artefacts are evidence of settlements along the coast dated back to the Byzantine period. Other items found in this area are also displayed, such as the beautiful bronze helmet made in Moio, in the Alcantara Valley, during the Hellenistic period. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to underwater findings, such as several anchor stocks and some transport amphoras. The arrangement follows chronological criteria Ground floor - The prehistoric period - Items found at the turn of the last century - The oldest phase of the colonial settlement: late-geometrical ceramic materials of Corinthian and Eubeian-cicladian productions, as well as imitations; outfits found in the northern necropolis; archaic transport amphoras of different production, all reutilized as graves First floor - Coins dated back to the 5th c. BC from the northern district of the town - The sacred areas of the town: architectural covers and antefixes with Silenian masks - The archaic and classic settlement, the necropoli of the 5th c. BC, and those of the Hellenistic period (3rd c. BC) Embattled tower of the Bourbon blockhouse - Underwater finds (anchor stocks, millstones, amphoras) Text and more information about individual artifacts from: www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/musei/mu...

187th Street becomes a staircase between Fort Washington Ave and Overlook Terrace. Here is a look east, down the staircase. In the foreground, graffiti on the building walls is appearing again. Text from: www.brorson.com/M4Bus/HH.html

One of the restaurants lining the main, pedestrian street of Taormina, Sicily.

View of one of the side-streets with a staircase, leading off the Corso Umberto, the main pedestrian street in Taormina, Sicily.