Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries. 45th Ed.
Georg Ruppelt, Elisabeth Sladek, Massimo Listri
Language: English
Published by Taschen GmbH, 2023
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Ob vert?felte Klosterbibliothek, B?chersaal einer altehrw?rdigen Universit?t, ber?hmte Privatbibliothek oder die private Hausbibliothek, die die eigene Biografie abbildet - B?chersammlungen und Bibliotheken sind Wohlf?hlorte, Oasen der Stille und zugleich ?berbordend vor Ideen, M?glichkeiten, Historien, alternativen Lebenswelten und unentdeckten Dingen. Sie bieten konzentrierter Arbeit, moderner Geisteswissenschaft und analytischem Denken Raum und sind doch auch Orte der Kontemplation, des Tr?umens und des Erinnerns. Auf dieser Fotoexpedition besucht Massimo Listri einige der ?ltesten und sch?nsten Bibliotheken der Welt, um deren architektonische, historische und fantasievolle Wunder zu enth?llen. Durch gro?e Holzt?ren, ?ber Wendeltreppen und entlang exquisiter, mit Regalen ausgestatteter Korridore f?hrt er uns durch herausragende private, ?ffentliche, Bildungs- und Klosterbibliotheken, die bis ins Jahr 766 zur?ckreichen. Diese Institutionen aus dem Mittelalter, dem Klassizismus, dem Barock, dem Rokoko und dem 19. Jahrhundert beherbergen einige der wertvollsten Aufzeichnungen menschlichen Denkens und Handelns, die in Manuskripten, B?nden, Papyrusrollen und Inkunabeln niedergeschrieben und gedruckt sind. In jeder dieser Bibliotheken fangen Listris aussagekr?ftige Bilder die einzigartige Atmosph?re der Bibliothek ebenso ein wie die wertvollsten Best?nde und Gestaltungsdetails.Zu den vorgestellten Bibliotheken geh?ren die p?pstlichen Sammlungen der Vatikanischen Apostolischen Bibliothek und die Trinity College Library in Dublin, in der das Book of Kells und das Book of Durrow aufbewahrt werden. Die sorgf?ltigen Beschreibungen, die jede vorgestellte Bibliothek begleiten, informieren nicht nur ?ber die erstaunlichen Best?nde der Bibliotheken - aus denen einige Highlights abgebildet sind -, sondern auch ?ber ihre oft bewegte, turbulente oder kontroverse Vergangenheit. So zum Beispiel das Franziskanerkloster in Lima, Peru, mit seiner F?lle an archivierten Inquisitionsdokumenten.Nach unserem XXL-Bestseller erscheint jetzt diese kompaktere Ausgabe: ein Augenschmaus f?r B?cherfreunde, eine Ode an das Lesen und die Schriftkultur und eine kulturhistorische Wallfahrt an die St?tten, die Archiv und Arche unserer Geschichte sind. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1163.…
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- Title
- Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries. 45th Ed.
- Author
- Georg Ruppelt, Elisabeth Sladek, Massimo Listri
- Publisher
- Taschen GmbH
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Gebundene Ausgabe
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3836593815
- ISBN 13
- 9783836593816
- Item weight
- 1,163 grams
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. It’s 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, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details.
Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow. 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 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 World’s 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.
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After studying history, German language and literature, education and philosophy, Georg Ruppelt gained his PhD with a doctoral thesis on Friedrich Schiller. He subsequently worked as a librarian, becoming deputy director of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 1987, and director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover from 2002 to 2016. Ruppelt has published over 400 essays and 40 monographs on the subject of books, library science, and cultural history.
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