Built in Florence by Michelangelo for the Medici's about 500 years ago, this library is now a Museum. If libraries are now museums, books are soon to become relics! or Architects more celebrated.

"The vestibule walls are particularly unorthodox; paired columns rising from insubstantial volutes are recessed behind the white plaster wall surface from which project niches with pilasters widening towards their capitals. " - Sir Banister Fletcher, A History of Architecture, p888