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Autor: LISTRI, Ruppelt y otros
Editorial: TASCHEN
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9783836535243
Reseña: From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York human beings have had a long enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space the collection of knowledge learning and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. Its the unrivaled realm of discovery where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea a far-flung fantasy an ancient belief a religious conviction or a whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic journey Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural historical and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors up spiraling staircases and along exquisite shelf-lined corridors he leads us through outstanding private public educational and monastic libraries dating as far back as 766. Between them these medieval classical baroque rococo and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed inscribed and printed in manuscripts volumes papyrus scrolls and incunabula. In each Listris poised images capture the librarys unique atmosphere as much as their most prized holdings and design details. Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library Trinity College Library home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow and the holdings of the Laurentian Library in Florence the private library of the powerful House of Medici designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library we learn not only of the libraries astonishing holdings-from which highlights are illustrated-but also of their often lively turbulent or controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars of religion or the Franciscan monastery in Lima Peru with its horde of archival Inquisition documents. At once a bibliophile beauty pageant an ode to knowledge and an evocation of the particular magic of print Massimo Listri. The Worlds Most Beautiful Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning to the stories they tell as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.
