Beautiful Baroque Library Hall in Prague’s Clementinum is a great example of Baroque library for it
hasn’t been changed since its foundation in 1722. It still shows the
organization of the library in the times of the Jesuit college in Prague.
The hall is decorated with frescoes by Josef Diebel depicting The
Science and The Art. The paintings on the cupola represent the Temple
of Wisdom. Along the walls, in the triangles above the windows, you
can see important people of the Jesuit college.
According to the legend, Jesuits took only one book with them to
Prague and during the reconstruction of the library they enlarged the
number of collected books to 20,000. The collection consists mainly of
theological books in many foreign languages.
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Christian Bredfeldt
Christian Bredfeldt
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