Design & Architecture
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
Read by David Wales
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
Read by Dirk Weber
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
Read by Availle
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, …
The Real Latin Quarter
Read by Bill Boerst
Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
Essays on Art
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…
Vom Gyps und vom Stucco
Read by Dirk Weber
Carl Schmied
Vom Gyps und vom Stucco ist eine Anleitung zur Herstellung von Gypsfiguren, nebst benötigter Formen, sowie zur Imitation des Marmors mi…
The Art of Bookbinding
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Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbind…
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530
Read by Pamela Nagami
Oscar Browning
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary comp…
Paulicea Desvairada
Read by Rachel Moraes
Mario De Andrade and Mário De Andrade
Paulicea Desvairada – livro de Mário de Andrade, publicado em julho de 1922. A leitura de trechos deste livro foi um dos pontos altos…
The Artist
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B. F. Gandee
The Artist, or Young Ladies' Instructor in Ornamental Painting, Drawing etc. is a delightful art instruction book from 1835. Follow Charlott…
The Tower of London
Read by Janet
Walter George Bell
A short book, whose chapters were originally published in The Daily Mail, which explores the history and facts of each of the structures tha…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
Remodeled Farmhouses
Read by Cynthia Moyer
Mary H. Northend
"There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, …
The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in…
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Johan Huizinga
The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages), subtitled A study of the form…