#burrell collection

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Half Armour from Northern Italy dated about 1570 on display at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland

Photographs taken by myself 2023

#armour #armor #military history #italy #italian #renaissance #16th century #art #fashion #burrell collection #museum #glasgow #barbucomedie

[azvolrien]

It does have a pretty good array of arms and armour on display. I found that sword in the fifth picture particularly interesting, as the end of the blade is slightly but noticeably wider than the base. 'Leaf-shaped' swords are not that uncommon in the archaeological and historical records, but it's not something I've seen in a Zweihänder before.

#photo #burrell collection #glasgow #sword #swords

[eaux-fortes]

BURRELL COLLECTION, GLASGOW, MARCH 2024.

#personal #glasgow #burrell collection #i am she #an ode to: persephone #brittany #you are what you read

[screampotato]

Went to the Burrell Collection museum in Glasgow, one of my favourite museums. It's housed in a truly wonderful building which was perfect in every way except that it couldn't keep the rain out - after a very long closure it's now open again with the all-new feature of being reliably waterproof!

I've been going to the Burrell since I was tiny, and there are certain exhibits that I have always loved. My absolute favourite are the Tang horse sculptures.

I don't know an awful lot about Chinese art history, but I just love these. There is so much life and personality and humour in them.

I also love this little ram with his sweet face, also from China.

There is something about depictions of animals in art, however ancient. There is so much love in them.

#art #sculpture #Chinese art #museums #burrell collection

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this English beadwork basket (1675) in the Burrell Collection

#basket #beadwork #craft #burrell collection #glasgow #needlework

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The Burrell Collection

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[missmarianjane]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Burrell Collection 🦋🌸

#scotland #glasgow #Burrell collection #pollock park

[thinkingimages]

Print from negative created c1880. Many of the photographs in the collection  are by Henry Barnes Snr.

The Trust Minutes from March 6,1879 record that the Curator was directed to obtain 'scrap books' in which to mount the photographs taken at the Museum, 'the photos to be scientifically arranged.' It is assumed that this album of fish, sponges and other sea life, along with albums depicting fossils and subjects from palaeontology and ethnography, is the result of that 1879 directive. Photo album AMS421/1.

Sea life Collection

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#Harry Burrell #Sea life Collection #Glass Plate Negative Collection #Australia #Star Fish #Sea Life #Collection #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Collections #1880

[mopearound]

#scotland #explore scotland #the burrell collection #art #sculpture #museum #personal

[dlyarchitecture]

#The Burrell Collection Museum / John McAslan + Partners

[barbucomedie]

Longsword from Western Europe dated between 1325-50 on display at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, Scotland

Photographs taken by myself 2023

#sword #military history #medieval #archaeology #art #14th century #burrell collection #museum #glasgow #barbucomedie

[azvolrien]

We then took the bus out to Pollok Country Park to visit the Burrell Collection, which is some rich shipping magnate's art collection that he and his wife bequeathed to the city and which reopened in 2022 after being closed for refurbishment in 2016.

It's got some pretty stunning pieces on display, but I can't say I was impressed by the interpretation panels. The rationale seems to have been 'Hmm, how can we make this appeal to The Kids?' with no particular consideration given to the idea that people who are not six years old visit museums as well.

This is, I have found, a recurring problem with museum renovations in recent years.

#photo #glasgow #burrell collection

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La vérité est que l'art doit être l'écriture de la vie.

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Roses dans un verre de champagne

Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK

Fonte wikiart org

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#art #paintings #edouard manet #still life #realism #1882 #citation

[ukdamo]

Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: the Burrell Collection. 

Portal to beautiful things...

#glasgow #art #museum #gallery #fine arts #architecture #artefacts #burrell collection

[scotianostra]

29th March 1958 saw the death of Sir William Burrell.

In 1876 William entered the firm at the age of 15, and on his father’s death in 1885 he and his eldest brother George took over the management. the firm was already prospering, but under their shrewd direction it reached a position of international standing in worldwide tramping and in ship management.

Burrell was a collector from an early age, buying his first painting when aged only 15, but it was Glasgow’s industrial ascendancy that would allow him to continue financing his passion for art, and the added success of the firm his father founded.

Building and buying ships when world markets were weak, Burrell built up and sold two great ocean-going fleets, providing him with the wealth needed to search the world for art and antiquities. Even better, his global shipping contacts meant he knew where and when certain treasures were being auctioned.

Burrell was far from alone in this passion, and as his fellow Glasgow industrialists grew wealthy, they too invested in art – both ancient and modern – to show off to their friends. Where Burrell differed, however, was that he was no show-off.

He was a serious collector, with wide-ranging interests and passions. By 1900 he had become a respected collector in the fields of late Gothic and early Renaissance European art and late 19th century French art.

In 1901, Burrell was one of the largest donors of artworks to the Glasgow International Exhibition. This was an event which left an indelible mark on the city, with the opening that year of the much-loved Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. In 1927, Burrell was knighted for services to art and for his public work.

But Burrell was certainly no snob when it came to his collection. He was a believer in free education for all and wanted the people of his home city to be able to access his fine collection. It’s for this reason that, in 1944, he donated his entire collection to his home city – a collection that contained more than 9,000 items at the time.

Shortly afterwards, Hector Hetherington, then Principal of Glasgow University, famously said of Burrell’s collection that it was:

“One of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world”.

By the time of his death in 1958, Burrell had been collecting for 75 years - and what a collection it is. From Chinese and early Islamic ceramics to Late Gothic and Early Renaissance works of art from Northern Europe, including tapestries, stained glass, sculpture, arms and armour, architecture and furniture.

Burrell’s collection takes visitors on a tour of 6,000 years of world history, connecting them to the people who made the exquisite works and to the people who have owned them down the centuries; making exciting new connections through time and place.

At the time of his gift, Burrell had stipulated that any new gallery must be 16 miles from the city centre. This was partly because he believed that a rural setting would show the works to their best advantage, but also to place them far away from possible damage by atmospheric pollution caused by Clydeside's heavy industries and tenement chimneys. By the time of Burrell's death in 1958, a suitable site had still to be found.

That problem was solved in 1966, when Mrs Anne Maxwell Macdonald gifted her family’s 360-acre Pollok Estate to the City of Glasgow. Although a mere four miles from the city centre, it seemed the perfect location for the vast Burrell Collection.

That said, it took a further 17 years, and an international design competition, before architect Sir Barry Gasson’s £20m building opened to the public.

The combination of exceptional art and architecture set within one of Europe’s largest urban green spaces was an immediate success, described by The Glasgow Herald as ‘a magical mystery tour and an aesthetic event rolled into one’. The Burrell Collection has since been a key driver in Glasgow’s transformation from a place of post-industrial decline to one of the great cities of culture.

In October 2016 the building closed for a major £68.25 million refurbishment. The Burrell Collection reopened today, its greatly expanded spaces promise improved access, understanding and appreciation of one of the world’s most extraordinary personal collections.

#scotland #scottish #history #art collector #shipping magnate #businessman #philanthropist #glasgow

[toomuchracket]

hi mads, random, but are you from glasgow? i'm going there in a few weeks and wondering if you had recommendations for cute places, shops and cafes to visit???

technically no but i practically live there at this point lol. ok so i think you should go out the west end (get the subway to hillhead/kelvinhall/kelvinbridge/maybe even partick) and go to kelvingrove gallery and/or the botanic gardens - there are a lot of cute cafes and restaurants out that way too!! alternatively, get the train from central and hang out in shawlands for a bit, there are some really lovely independent shops, and you could also get off the train at pollokshaws west and go to see the highland cows in pollok country park (there are baby ones!!); there's also the burrell collection, a gallery, within the park too. if you like pizza, paesano is the move (there's one in the west end AND one in the city centre), and definitely sugo for pasta (literally my fav place of all time). for drinks in the city centre, i like stereo and tabac for something chill, king tuts is iconic, and devil of brooklyn is meant to be fab - for coffee, tinderbox (they have a few locations across the city), laboratorio espresso, spitfire, or social bite on sauchiehall street (their proceeds go to helping reduce homelessness, and the cakes are AMAZING). drinks in the west end, i'd go to inn deep or banana moon, or somewhere down ashton lane or oran mor if i was feeling a bit fancier, and i tend to buy coffee in the alchemy experiment whenever i'm out there just for an excuse to go in lol - it's a gallery space/cafe hybrid, where they sell art and other little independently-crafted bits and bobs, and if you're there then walk a few doors down to onawallnearyou for prints as well. if you're going any further east than glasgow cross - which you should, to go to the barras market at the weekend - saint luke's and the winged ox for drinks (nice food, too), and us v them for coffee. OH also if you're looking for something cute to do, definitely go pottery painting at the craft pottery (book via insta), and golf fang is meant to be really fun crazy golf but i have yet to try. and tbh if it's live music you're after then i'd just see what's on in stereo/king tuts/broadcast/nice n sleazys while you're there lol you might end up seeing the next big thing!! yeah there's so much to do. gonna tag jade @theseventyfive to see if she has any recs that i've forgotten lol <3

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