"Not a single volume has been opened.
That’s a great shame.There’s something sad about an unread book."
Boy Reading Adventure Story by Norman Rockwell
The Librarian by Andre Martins de Barros
The Original Alice In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll
The library of the St. Florian Monastery in Austria
The library’s interior is a masterwork of Baroque architecture with elaborate carved-wood bookcases and balustrades with gilded details. A ceiling fresco by Bartolomeo Altomonte, completed in 1747, presents allegorical subjects who watch over the great room from the clouds.
Baroque Library Hall, Klementinum, Prague
With elaborate ceiling frescoes and spiraling wood columns topped by gilded capitals, there is no mistaking the aptly named Baroque Library’s grand ambitions. Containing a selection of unusual oversized globes, it offers a reminder of its former patrons’ quest for worldly knowledge.
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