1538 Works - 1538 Architecture, 1538 Books, 1538 Paintings, Old City, Regensburg Cathedral, Nonsuch Palace, Palazzo Strozzi, St Mary's College (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1538 Architecture, 1538 Books, 1538 Paintings, Old City, Regensburg Cathedral, Nonsuch Palace, Palazzo Strozzi, St Mary's College, St Andrews, Venus of Urbino, Dome of the Prophet, Bucelleni-Ruard Manor, Kan Castle, Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia. Excerpt: Sava, main square. From L-R, Ruard Manor, Church of the Assumption of Mary, KasarnaThe Bucelleni-Ruard Manor, commonly referred to as the Ruard manor (Slovene: Ruardova gra ina ), is a 16th century manor house located in the Sava district of the town of Jesenice, Slovenia, at the street address of 45 Pre ernova . It is one of four so-called "ironworks castles" built in the area during the 16th and early 17th centuries by the owners of iron-mining and -processing facilities, in what were then the clustered settlements of Plav, Sava, Murova and Javornik, amalgamated into the town of Jesenice in 1929. The Kos Manor in Murova also survives; the Plav and Javornik manors were demolished.The Ruard Manor was built in 1538 by the Italian businessman Bernardo Bucelleni, who had recently relocated to Sava from Bergamo and whose family would come to dominate the iron mining and processing industry of the entire upper Sava valley . Unlike the Kos manor, Bucelenni chose to locate this residence close to the ironworks themselves. The Bucellenis were very successful for a time, and were ennobled during the 1600s, taking the name "von Reichenberg" after the German name of their ore mines at Savske Jame . In 1686 the family was elevated to counthoood.The manor gained the second half of its current name in 1766, when Valentin Ruard, a Belgian entrepreneur, bought the entire estate and restored the failing ironworks surrounding it. Leopold Ruard, his son, was mayor of Jesenice under the brief period of French rule . In 1831, the manor ...