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Listri's meticulous attention to minutiae and details is exquisite. One can practically smell the dust on these ancient books. There was a time when extravagant cathedrals were created just to house books and manuscripts. Listri's large-format photographs document European libraries built between the 15th and the 19th century...

Listri's meticulous attention to minutiae and details is exquisite. One can practically smell the dust on these ancient books. --Artology There was a time when extravagant cathedrals were created just to house books and manuscripts. Listri's large-format photographs document European libraries built between the 15th and the 19th century... --The New York Times

There was a time when extravagant cathedrals were created just to house books and manuscripts. Listri's large-format photographs document European libraries built between the 15th and the 19th century... Listri's meticulous attention to minutiae and details is exquisite. One can practically smell the dust on these ancient books.

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Elisabeth Sladek studied Art History in Vienna, Classical Archaeology and Judaic Studies and wrote her dissertation at the Max Planck Institute in Rome. Her special field is the history of the Baroque art and architecture and she is an active researcher and teacher, among others in Vienna, Rome and Zurich. She also publishes regularly on the respective themes. After studying history, German language and literature, education and philosophy, Georg Ruppelt gained his PhD with a doctoral thesis on Friedrich Schiller. He subsequently worked as a librarian, becoming deputy director of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel in 1987, and director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover from 2002 to 2016. Ruppelt has published over 400 essays and 40 monographs on the subject of books, library science, and cultural history.

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