Sentences with phrase «seventeenth century house»

Comfortable cottage built on the original structure of a seventeenth century house, retaining its existing remains restoration of old and at the same time, incorporating all the comforts of today.

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The famous Turkish traveler Evlia Chelebi, who wrote in the eleventh century (seventeenth century A.D.), tells in his six volumes of travel notes of many saints belonging to the order of Ahmad Yesevi and describes one tekke capable of housing two hundred men.

Although Milton had made a personal visit to Galileo during the latter's house - arrest and for obvious reasons deplored the verdict of the Inquisition against Galileo's heliocentrism, debate in the seventeenth century was still raging among astronomers as to which system was right, the Copernican or the Ptolemaic.

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It was in the seventeenth century that a fortress was first erected on the hill; as the structure was rebuilt over the following centuries, little attention was ever paid to the small houses of worship nearby.

In my novel, I posit that seventeenth - century women would have been quite strong in their own spheres, meaning the home, in social centers like the bathhouse, in raising children, in supervising house - related staff and purchases, and in craft - related work performed at home.

The latest of these housekeepers was Mrs. Clay, who took care of our narrow seventeenth - century town house on the Raamgracht, a canal in the heart of the old city.

This award - winning museum is set in the seventeenth - century house in which the famous explorer James Cook lived as an apprentice seaman in Whitby.

The canals and bridges are famous throughout the world and a canal cruise is a perfect way to view the seventeenth century picturesque gabled houses, the merchant's elegant mansions and the quirky house boats in the heart of the old city.

The seventeenth - century villa houses many masterpieces of Italian art whilst the colourful gardens, described as «a place of heaven», feature plantings of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias as wells as exotic plants, bamboos, ferns and ancient cedar and sequoia trees.

Even by Galle Fort's standards, there are few villas as sizeable as Ambassador's House, a seventeenth - century villa nestled within this UNESCO - certified old town.

It is surrounded by the city's Hôtel de Ville, or Stadhuis (Town Hall), gold - encrusted seventeenth century guildhalls, and the Maison du Roi (King's House) or Brodhuis (Breadhouse), the latter having only been occupied by bakers selling their breads and never by a king.

Tucked within Galle's historic seventeenth century fortress on the picturesque southern coast of Sri Lanka, Ambassador's House is a magnificently proportioned five - bedroom villa bursting with colonial charm and atmosphere.

A history that began in the fourth century with a Roman fortress and settlement has bestowed a wealth of stunningly - preserved historic buildings upon Boppard from the remains of the original Roman city wall to the twelfth - century Church of St. Severus, notable for its twin spires and beautiful stained - glass windows, and to the many half - timbered houses which were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Housed in a seventeenth - century building, in the heart of the San Marco district, the gallery has street and canal frontage.

Housed in Ca» Pesaro, the seventeenth - century palazzo turned modern art museum, Chase's work found a temporary home in this fittingly eclectic space.

The intimate gallery space is housed in a seventeenth - century building, in the former Galleria Il Capricorno.

Calder agrees to a trade of three mobiles for François Premier, a dilapidated seventeenth - century stone house built adjoining a cliff on Jean's property.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Morning came too soon, but I made it to «Padiglione Crepaccio» — a three - day exhibition for ten young Venetian artists organized by Milanese curator Caroline Corbetta and Yoox.com in a private seventeenth - century house — in time for a delicious (at last!)

«Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain» (2008) is on display in the seventeenth century chapel at Chatsworth House, as part of Sotheby's annual sculpture exhibition.