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略讀畢卡索 1932奇蹟年；美國國會圖書館美術；《安格爾的提琴》(Le Violon d'Ingres)...Smithsonian Magazine, May 20, 2022. A Painting of Picasso’s Mistress Muse Just Sold for $67.5 Million. Why the Library of Congress Is a Tribute to Democracy and More

略讀 Smithsonian Magazine, May 20, 2022. 畢卡索 1932奇蹟年 A Painting of Picasso’s Mistress Muse Just Sold for $67.5 Million.美國國會圖書館美術 Why the Library of Congress Is a Tribute to Democracy and More

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the rotunda in the Library of Congress — The main reading room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Atop all eight marble columns are allegorical plaster figures representing Enlightenment ideals, including history, art, poetry and law. Ty Cole

Some critics may consider electronic screens to be anathema to learning, but digitization can be seen as the latest step in making the library’s longstanding democratic ideals a reality. Engraved in the John Adams Building are lines from Jefferson: “Educate and inform the mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.” Because of technology, Jefferson’s collection will soon be instantly accessible to “the mass”—or at least to any citizen with an internet connection—a triumph for the founding principles of what is now the biggest library in the world.

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How the Thomas Jefferson Building speaks to the nation’s educational ideals

Sculpture of St. Paul in the Library of Congress — Sculpted by John Donoghue, St. Paul oversees the reading room. On his 1882 U.S. tour, Oscar Wilde called Donoghue’s art “more beautiful than the work of any sculptor I have seen.” Paul Pelz, main architect of the Thomas Jefferson Building, chose elaborate Corinthian columns, made by W.H. Evans & Son in Baltimore, to evoke the library’s high purpose. Ty Cole

Winter by Frank Benson — Vibrant murals depicting the four seasons adorn the upper walls of the south corridor. *Winter,* by Frank Benson, features a quotation from Shakespeare's *As You Like It*—not *The Winter's Tale*, as one might expect. Ty Cole

Mural depicting the printing press — The last in a six-part series by John White Alexander illustrating the evolution of the book, this mural shows Johannes Gutenberg with his printing press. The series begins with a painting of prehistoric humans creating a simple cairn. Ty Cole

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (II.i. 1 – 17 ).

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