Remisoff murals

It’s fair to say that the Library’s rotunda is unique, not only in design, but because of the beautiful murals that adorn it.  They were done in 1931 by Nicolai Remisoff ,who was born in Russia and ended up in Hollywood,  and are the only viewable works of his in the Chicago area. They were featured March 25^th  in WTTW’s  “Ask Geoffrey “. The two over the circulation desk depict (on the left) Homer, the reputedly-blind Greek poet and, probably, the poet Pindar, the adoring boy to his right.  They were not contemporaries.  To the right of the desk is the mathematician Pythagoras and to his right is Thales the geometrician holding a scroll which reads  (in case your Greek is rusty) “Know thyself”. Later blogs will cover the remaining six murals.