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February 23, 2008: Exhibition Commemorates Architect of the British Library
"The most haunting of all images for Colin St John Wilson, architect of many libraries, was that of Saint Jerome, the patron saint of scholars. In the well-known painting by Antonello da Messina, now in the National Gallery, the scholar-saint sits reading in the ideal conditions of a purpose-designed, self-contained, small study room..."
