[Photography by James Fennell from The Irish Country House courtesy Vendome Press 2010.]
She'll be in New York tomorrow night, January 24, at The Bard Graduate Center for a talk: Cardinal Mazarin: A Great Collector of Art and Books in Seventeenth-Century France. In addition to his serious passion for art, Mazarin had a thirst for books. His personal library was ultimately opened to the public, overseen by librarian/scholar Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653), and grew to become the Bibliothèque Mazarine. Details on the 6 p.m. lecture here.
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Wonderful photograph, could be a great illustration to the subject of 'chaos theory' :) Come to think of it, many old family collections are illustrations of chaos theory...
By the way, I just forwarded the link to the Met's Connections web page (http://bit.ly/dEEeoR) to various colleagues, as a wonderful example of online videos of curators talking passionately about objects. We are trying to improve our website and it would be so good if we could achieve something similar. I first learned of Connections through a post on Style Court, so thanks again!
Emile -- so glad to hear it!
Sorry, I was reading comments out of order. Yes, chaos theory encapsulated! It's such a great shot.
Sigh...with this remodel project being in the year of the Dragon...as in drag on and on, I am most wistful to have my books out of storage and stacked everywhere. I personally feel nothing says home, like books, books and more books!
HBD -- I second that!
Always a treat when you stop by. Hope the project comes to fruition soon :)
I stopped by Shakespeare & Co in Paris and absolutely adored their stacks and stacks of books, piled haphazardly yet beautifully. I so wish I could make the lecture tonight! One of the thrills of living in NYC: too many events to choose from ;)
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