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Grandiose Baroque Library in Prague Is a Stunning Kingdom for Books | via

Prague’s Klementinum library was opened in 1722 and has easily become one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. Aside from housing over 20,000 novels for your reading pleasure, this location showcases absolutely stunning Baroque architecture. As you’re perusing various timeworn bookshelves, you can take a moment to look up and see Jan Hiebl’s heavenly, Renaissance-style ceiling paintings. Amongst his work, there are symbolic designs that represent the importance of education, along with fantastic portraits of Jesuit saints.

Hiebl’s paintings actually pay homage to the fact that the library was originally a Jesuit university. Many of the school’s rare, 17th-century books are still amongst its collection today. That would explain why Emperor Joseph II’s portrait is displayed at the head of the hall, since he was the one who arranged for abolished monastic libraries to send their books to Klementinum. Now, Google has several of these volumes in their possession because they’re scanning them for Google Books.

In 1777, Maria Theresa declared Klementinum to be a public and university library. This allowed the Prague community to witness this local treasure in person, to marvel at the globes that line the center of the library, and to study Jan Klein’s intricate astronomical clocks.

Photography: Klementinum, Olivier Martel Savoie

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Dr Martens Di Paolo Pascal 1460 boot emblazoned with The Annunciation, a painting by Giannicola Di Paolo-which features the archangel Gabriel handing a lily, the symbol of purity, to the Virgin Mary.

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persephone sits in a courtroom dress as green as summer trees her lipstick red as blood her golden crown sits on the table and hermes stares her down “did you eat the seeds of your own free will?” a dagger fashioned into a question hades flinches, front-row seat; thanatos his defense attorney demeter straightens in the audience a flower blooms in her sun-browned hair her curls a halo round her daughter’s face and persephone smiles “i did.” shocked gasps in the courtroom the jury whispers amongst themselves deities, spirits, nymphs, and ghosts all here to judge the king of hell “why?” persephone looks into her husband’s eyes lord and lady, king and queen she takes her crown and settles it upon her summer curls “centuries ago,” she says, every word a titan-sized whisper, “i was only a girl. look at me now.” persephone stands in a courtroom and hades smiles for here, she is a queen

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