The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance
How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
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Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance.
The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its designer was Filippo Brunelleschi, a temperamental architect and inventor who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. Yet the completion of the dome was not Brunelleschi’s glory alone. He was forced to share the commission with his archrival, the canny and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti.
In this lush, imaginative history - a fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph - Paul Robert Walker breathes life into these two talented, passionate artists and the competitive drive that united and dived them. As it illuminates fascinating individuals from Donatello and Masaccio to Cosimo de’Medici and Leon Battista Alberti, The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance offers a glorious tour of 15th-century Florence, a bustling city on the verge of greatness in a time of flourishing creativity, rivalry, and genius.
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Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great history with terrible narration
- De Whiskey Mike en 12-16-21
De: Ross King
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually, the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club". In this captivating audiobook, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful survey
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Leo Damrosch
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The Original Black Elite
- Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
- De: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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This cultural biography tells the enthralling story of the high-achieving Black elites who thrived in the nation's capital during Reconstruction. Daniel Murray (1851-1925), an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress, was a prominent member of this glorious class. Murray's life was reflective of those who were well-off at the time. This social circle included African American educators, ministers, lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, US senators and representatives, and other government officials.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our History
- De Deidre Jackson en 02-23-19
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruins the narrative
- De amavita en 03-24-22
De: Paul Strathern
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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The Third Chimpanzee
- The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- De: Jared Diamond
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,351
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet - having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art - while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Up to the usual high standard
- De Mark en 09-04-12
De: Jared Diamond
Excellent
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discussion of creation of
a rt in Renaissance Florence. Rivalry between Brunelleschi and Giberti and how it fueled the Renaissance itself.
Coverage of florentine art and its creation, Fillipo- ‐Lorenzo competition
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Fabulous book, I’m headed to Florence and 15 days and I’m really glad for this background
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Detailed history of the early Italian Renaissance
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