The Librarian's Room
Painting Illustrating Books, the Delight of the Soul
In each of the four
pendentives is a circular painting by Edward J. Holslag complementing
the theme of the ceiling painting. The pendatives, triangular curved
surfaces between two arches and beneath a dome, are decorated with rosettes
and fluttering ribbons, garlands of fruit, moldings of elongated beads
and disks (bead-and-reel), egg-and-dart moldings, and sprays of bay
leaves and bayberries surrounding the circular paintings. In the northeast
pendentive painting, a young woman holds a closed book with the ribbon
banner above incribed "Liber delectatio animae" (Books, the delight
of the soul).
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