In the atrium and vestibule of the Lancisiana Library unfolds the grand 18th-century wooden shelving, surmounted by cartouches bearing the names of various disciplines in gold lettering. Since its founding, the library has preserved its precious codices within these bookcases. At the center of the hall, flanking the large full-arch doorway, stand the busts of the popes whom Giovanni Maria Lancisi served as papal physician: Clement XI (Gian Francesco Albani) and Innocent XI (Benedetto Odescalchi). Carved in marble by artists from the Roman school in the first half of the 18th century, these busts reflect the stylistic principles of the Bernini school. The presence of mortars and pharmaceutical ceramics (16th-19th centuries) serves primarily to highlight the close connection between academic study and pharmaceutical practice
