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A Könyvtár épülete - The Library Building Gy. Balogh Ágnes

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This composition featured more than 80 portraits, among them Archimedes, Plato, Aristotle, Christopher Columbus, Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Santi, Bramante, Brunelleschi, Palladio, Kepler, Newton, Descartes, Gutenberg, Darwin and Siemens. Hungarians who were portrayed here include Ányos Jedlik, Károly Than, Pál Vásárhelyi, Sándor Lipthay, István Széchenyi, Farkas Bolyai, Miklós Ybl, Imre Steindl, István Kruspér, Károly Hieronymi and József Stoczek. The composition also showed the cathedral of Florence, the first steam engine, a railway bridge model, a tensiometer, as well as other technical instruments. Samu Pecz described the building in 1909 in an article published in the periodical titled Építő Ipar ("Building Industry") as follows: "The library building was conceived as a separate structure along the site border and on the axis of the main building to meet the most modern demands of practicality, appropriate light conditions and fire-safety. Its chief

parts, the reading hall, the bookstore and the administration rooms are housed in a separate wing grouped around a spacious foyer and stairwell, which is connected with the main building by a duplex corridor opened up- and closed downside. The foyer, made of yellow unfired brick and with ornate vaults, and lit by colourful windows, is surrounded by the cloakroom and the rooms of the manual library, on the outside it is accentuated by the ridge turret clad in copper and tin to house the clock