Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries
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Published by Taschen Gmbh Dez 2022, 2022
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Neuware -Ob vertäfelte Klosterbibliothek, Büchersaal einer altehrwürdigen Universität, die berühmte Privatbibliothek der Medici oder die private Hausbibliothek, die die eigene Biografie abbildet, Büchersammlungen und Bibliotheken sind Wohlfühlorte, Oasen der Stille und zugleich überbordend vor Ideen, Möglichkeiten, Historien, alternativen Lebenswelten und unentdeckten Dingen. Sie bieten konzentrierter Arbeit, moderner Geisteswissenschaft und analytischem Denken Raum und sind doch auch Orte der Kontemplation, des Träumens und des Erinnerns. Auf dieser Fotoexpedition besucht Massimo Listri einige der ältesten und schönsten Bibliotheken der Welt. Er führt u. a. durch die päpstlichen Sammlungen der Vatikanischen Apostolischen Bibliothek, die Trinity College Library in Dublin, in der das Book of Kells und das Book of Durrow aufbewahrt werden, durch die Laurenziana in Florenz, ehemals die Privatbibliothek des mächtigen Hauses Medici, die von Michelangelo entworfen wurde, und durch Klosterbibliotheken in der Alten wie in der Neuen Welt - jede von ihnen erfüllt von einer einzigartigen magischen Atmosphäre. Detaillierte Begleittexte beschreiben die Entstehung, die Architektur und die oft wechselvolle Vergangenheit aller vorgestellten Bibliotheken - Kathedralen des Wissens, die nicht nur bibliophile Naturen in ihren Bann schlagen. Massimo Listri. Die schönsten Bibliotheken der Welt ist ein Augenschmaus für Bücherfreunde, eine Ode an das Lesen und die Schriftkultur und eine kulturhistorische Wallfahrt an die Stätten, die Archiv und Arche unserer Geschichte sind.; Mehrsprachige Ausgabe 560 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.…
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- Title
- Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries
- Author
- Georg Ruppelt
- Publisher
- Taschen Gmbh Dez 2022
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- Multiple languages
- ISBN 10
- 3836535246
- ISBN 13
- 9783836535243
- Item weight
- 7,130 grams
- Dimensions
- 457x324x82 mm
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, 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 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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Elisabeth Sladek studied Art History in Vienna, Classical Archaeology and Judaic Studies and wrote her dissertation at the Max Planck Institute in Rome. Her special field is the history of the Baroque art and architecture and she is an active researcher and teacher, among others in Vienna, Rome and Zurich. She also publishes regularly on the respective themes.
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