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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. During the four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent laboring over the ceiling, power politics and personal rivalries swirled around him. He battled ill health, financial and family difficulties, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the Pope's impatience - a history that is more compelling than most novels.
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History brought to life!
- By Anne on 05-17-03
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-18-03
- Language: English
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- By: Genevieve von Petzinger
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.
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Crawling through caves-a memoir
- By GraceAgnes on 01-27-21
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The First Signs
- Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-01-16
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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The problem is with Cellini himself.
- By Leslie Ross on 06-07-10
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-13-06
- Language: English
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Michelangelo
- By: George Bull
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was recognized in his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a succession of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with terribilita, or intense emotional power.
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very detailed
- By Lisa on 09-14-15
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Michelangelo
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-17-06
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
- By: Tom Wolfe
- Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world - a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. From the fuliginous flatness of the 50s to the pop op minimal 60s, right on through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t 70s, Tom Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art in an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating blast.
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excellent
- By Hillary on 11-27-16
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The Painted Word
- Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-07-12
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Fall
- Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
- By: Alicia Drake
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion’s most beloved luminaries - Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant terrible, and Karl Lagerfeld, the flamboyant freelancer with a talent for reinvention - and they divided Paris into two fabulous halves.
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Fun and immersive -- despite the narrator
- By SBG on 01-10-21
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The Beautiful Fall
- Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-29-12
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn
- Essays
- By: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. Sontag's writings are famously full of intellectual range and depth, and are at turns exhilarating, ominous, disturbing, and beautiful.
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Great essays and a great reading performance
- By Jaded Buddha on 03-29-18
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Under the Sign of Saturn
- Essays
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-27-18
- Language: English
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- By: Miles J. Unger
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international art world that, after suffering years of poverty and neglect, he emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night conversations at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends resolved to shake up the world.
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An Excellent Text
- By Josh Lammers on 04-04-19
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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-13-18
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.
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Essential AYN
- By Mica on 07-15-08
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-10-08
- Language: English
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Broad Strokes
- 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
- By: Bridget Quinn
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.
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Unbelievably Trying
- By Lorraine on 09-15-20
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Broad Strokes
- 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-04-17
- Language: English
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The Gardner Heist
- The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- By: Ulrich Boser
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves.
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Loved it!
- By Amanda D. on 05-21-19
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The Gardner Heist
- The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-21-18
- Language: English
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The Lonely City
- Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass.
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Not what I wanted
- By Katarina Riesing on 06-04-18
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The Lonely City
- Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-02-16
- Language: English
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Dear Theo
- The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh
- By: Irving Stone, Jean Stone
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins
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Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was all scrupulously recorded and shared. In these letters, Van Gogh reveals himself as artist and man. Even more than if he had purposely intended to tell his life story, Van Gogh’s letters lay bare his deepest feelings, as well as his everyday concerns and his views of the world of art.
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Worst narrator ever!
- By Aawendel on 03-28-14
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Dear Theo
- The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh
- Narrated by: Clive Chafer
- Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-21-12
- Language: English
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- By: Jacob Burckhardt
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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In this landmark study of Italy from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt chronicles the rise of Florence and Venice as powerful city-states, the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscovery of Greek and Roman culture, and the new emphasis on the role of the individual. All these, Burckhardt explains, went hand in hand with the explorations of science and the more naturalistic depiction of the world in art and literature.
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A nest as beautiful as the bird(s) it bore
- By Darwin8u on 07-12-14
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-08-06
- Language: English
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The Missing of the Somme
- By: Geoff Dyer
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on the significance of the First World War, is a gem for Dyer fans and history buffs alike. With his characteristic wit and insight, here Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and film, poetry and sculptures, graveyards, and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
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Piquing
- By Justin on 06-28-17
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The Missing of the Somme
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-15-11
- Language: English
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Lives of the Artists, Volume One
- By: Giorgio Vasari
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Georgio Vasari's original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. He describes the lives of 45 artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations.
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An encyclopedic “Garden of Delights”
- By Darwin8u on 07-12-14
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Lives of the Artists, Volume One
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-19-05
- Language: English
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De Kooning's Bicycle
- Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
- By: Robert Long
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Some of the twentieth century's most important artists and writers, from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford, lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come.
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ARTISTS & WRITERS
- By chetyarbrough.blog on 08-08-14
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De Kooning's Bicycle
- Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-07-06
- Language: English
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Art's Prospect
- The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
- By: Roger Kimball
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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In this series of essays, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, examines the current art scene with a scathing intelligence and a crystalline eloquence of writing style. Particularly amusing are his dissections of art-show catalogspeak.
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Yawn, yawn.
- By Jarrett on 08-15-04
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Art's Prospect
- The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-02-04
- Language: English
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