ADMONT ABBEY LIBRARY
Admont Abbey Library in Styria/Austria/Europe is the largest monastic library in the world, and is noted for its Baroque art, architecture and manuscripts. My series shows the library hall temporary illuminated in special colours.
The late Baroque library hall, completed with a domed fresco in 1776, was commissioned by Abbot Matthäus Offner (reign 1751-1779). It was planned from around 1764 and built in the following years by the Austrian Baroque master builder Josef Hueber (1715-1787). Hueber was committed to the ideas of the Enlightenment: "Light should fill the room as well as the mind." The enormous room, divided into three parts, is the largest monastic library hall in the world. The seven ceiling frescoes, created by the 80-year-old Bartolomeo Altomonte (1694-1783) in the summer months of 1775 and 1776, also exude an Enlightenment spirit. They show the stages of human knowledge from thinking and speaking to the sciences and divine revelation in the centre dome.
ADMONT ABBEY LIBRARY
Admont Abbey Library in Styria/Austria/Europe is the largest monastic library in the world, and is noted for its Baroque art, architecture and manuscripts. My series shows the library hall temporary illuminated in special colours.
The late Baroque library hall, completed with a domed fresco in 1776, was commissioned by Abbot Matthäus Offner (reign 1751-1779). It was planned from around 1764 and built in the following years by the Austrian Baroque master builder Josef Hueber (1715-1787). Hueber was committed to the ideas of the Enlightenment: "Light should fill the room as well as the mind." The enormous room, divided into three parts, is the largest monastic library hall in the world. The seven ceiling frescoes, created by the 80-year-old Bartolomeo Altomonte (1694-1783) in the summer months of 1775 and 1776, also exude an Enlightenment spirit. They show the stages of human knowledge from thinking and speaking to the sciences and divine revelation in the centre dome.