Calouste Gulbenkian’s personal library represents a testimony of the Founder’s reading preferences along his life. By choosing the documents held in the Collector’s personal library to develop this project the Art Library aims to make evident numerous aspects related to the life and work of Calouste Gulbenkian. These include possible correlations between the Collector’s aesthetic tastes and the cultural life of his time the variety of his personal interests as well as signs of his opinions and reasoning evidenced by visible reading marks. In this sense instead of privileging specific fields of interest or highlighting specific books the approach chosen was to select different sections of the collection which allowed establishing links between specific stages of Calouste Gulbenkian’s life and some known features of his character. The final result of the project is a website the best way for information dissemination nowadays. By providing a wide range of access to Calouste Gulbenkian’s personal library the Art Library reaches to publics having different interests and needs in these subject matters. The website shows some peculiarities of the collection and conveys different search approaches in an easy and attractive way.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:00:00 +0000
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