The main research library of the University of Oxford is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and second-largest library in Britain after the British Library.
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25. Biblioteca Casanatense, Italy ๐ฎ๐น
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28. George Peabody Library, USA ๐บ๐ธ
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30. Biblioteca Marciana, Italy ๐ฎ๐น
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1. The veil that got an artist accused of alchemy
Giuseppe Sanmartino carved the Veiled Christ from a single block of white marble in 1753 for the Cappella Sansevero in Naples.
Contemporaries accused him of alchemy for its breathtaking realism, and Canova himself declared he would give ten years of his life to have created it.
2. Marble sits at 3-4 on the Mohs scale of hardness. Steel sits at 4 to 4.5.
Khafre Enthroned is made of anorthosite gneiss, which registers at 6 to 7. It was carved over four millennia ago by ancient Egyptians who, according to archaeologists, had not yet developed iron tools.