think again!
above is the Real
Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the library is just one of the many that features in a book titled, The
World’s Most Beautiful Libraries, Portuguese
photographer Massimo
Listri has spent decades traversing the globe to document the
spectacular architecture, sculptural elements, and furnishings of historic
libraries, His new book includes views inside such rarefied locations as the Klosterbibliothek Metten, Metten, Germany and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France, Listri also includes descriptions and
histories of each library, and below I have posted just a few of the photographs he took that appear in the book,
Klosterbibliothek Metten, Metten, Germany,
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France,
Biblioteca do Convento de Mafra, Mafra, Portugal,
Stiftsbibliothek Admont, Admont, Austria,
Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbria, Portugal,
Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland,
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy,
Strahovská Knihovna, Prague, Czech Republic,
and the book itself, the
560-page tome is published by TASCHEN and available on Amazon and the TASCHEN website,
above one of the opened pages from the book, stunning buildings all of the photographs were taken by Massimo
Listri, and no I am not on commision! I just think what a beautiful book it is to own.
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