Design & Architecture
Die Neue Malerei
Read by Dirk Weber
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München; † 4. März 1916 bei Verdun, Frankreich) war ein deutscher Maler und neben …
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3
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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Van Dyck
Read by Susan Morin
Percy M. Turner
A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic …
The Medici, Volume 1
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G. F. Young
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…
The Art of Stage Dancing
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Ned Wayburn
Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …
Woman as Decoration
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Helen M. Urban
A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)
A Color Notation
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Albert Henry Munsell
A Color Notation is a method developed by A. H. Munsell in order to produce a unified system of color classification. The system identifies …
The Tower Of London
Read by David Wales
Arthur Poyser
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving d…
The Eyes of the Movie
Read by Chuck Williamson
Harry Alan Potamkin
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…
The Gentle Art of Faking
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Riccardo Nobili
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…
Read by Steven Seitel
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
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Edward Armitage
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing,…
Fünfzig Jahre Museumsarbeit
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Wilhelm Von Bode
Wilhelm von Bode war ein bedeutender deutscher Kunsthistoriker und Museumsfachmann und gilt als der Mitbegründer des modernen Museumswe…
Windsor Castle, Book 3
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William Harrison Ainsworth
Book 3 - The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Ann…
Viaje a América (Tomo 1 de 2)
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Rafael Puig Y Valls
La crónica de un periodista español que asistió a la Exposición Universal de Chicago en 1893, y que despué…
Sämtliche Schriften 1911-1921, Teil 1
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Carl Von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), Journalist, Pazifist und Friedensnobelpreisträger [1935], zählte zu den herausragenden Persön…
The History of the Suez Canal
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Austen Layard
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
Child-life in Art
Read by Laura Caldwell
Estelle M. Hurll
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-chi…
Malerbriefe: Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis der Malerei
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Wilhelm Ostwald
In seinen 17 Malerbriefen geht Wilhelm Ostwald in leicht verständlicher Weise auf die Physikalischen (Optik) und Chemischen (Pigmente, …