X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Thompson Memorial Library


Elena Cornaro Piscopia

This scene is illustrated in the Cornaro Window in the West Wing of the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College.

Thompson Memorial Library

The window comes from the studios of Messrs. John Hardman & Company of Birmingham, England, and of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, their U.S. representatives.

Below the frieze of seals in the central hall hang five seventeenth-century Flemish Gobelin tapestries portraying Apuleius' romance of Cupid and Psyche.



see also

Bona Thompson Memorial Center

The Bona Thompson Memorial Center, formerly the Bona Thompson Memorial LIbrary, is a historic building on the original Butler University campus in the Irvington Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana.