1959/65 Francesco Borromini (1599/1667) for Alexander VII
Chigi (1655/67) on the second floor to the left of the church
“It remains
like Borromini had designed it. The great hall of the library is three stories
high and the recessed shelves, also designed by the master, form an important
part of the architecture. This was a new and important idea that he had not yet
conceived when he built the library on top of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri
some twenty years earlier. It was precisely this new concept that made the
Biblioteca Alessandrina the prototype of the great libraries of the eighteenth
century” (Rudolf Wittkower)
VAULT
“Triumph of Religion
with the three theological virtues, the four evangelists and four doctors of
the Church”
1662/65 by Clemente Maioli (1634/73) from
Ferrara influenced by Pietro da Cortona and close to the style of Giovanni
Francesco Romanelli
“Bust of Alexander
VII” in 1661 by Domenico Guidi (1625/1701)
embedded into a frame of golden stucco designed by Borromini
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