Monday, March 21, 2011 (Part 4)Also inside the Siena Duomo is the Piccolomini Library. This room was built to house manuscripts and it contains some illuminated manuscripts today. But they are not the real draw in this room. The main attractions here are the brightly colored frescos on the walls that depict scenes in the life of Pope Pius II, also know as Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who was from Siena.
The frescos in the Library were painted between 1505 and 1507 by the great Umbrian artist, Pinturicchio. They are beautiful, and they remain extremely colorful. This room is doing a masterful job of preserving them.
The ceiling of the Library is also a delight of colorful tiles and reliefs and scenes with animals both real and imagined.
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