Art

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

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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…

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 …

A Little Tour in France

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…

Music Talks With Children

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Thomas Tapper


"A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a fe…

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

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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 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 …

Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters

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Amy Steedman


A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the de…

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…

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)

The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book

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Jane Eayre Fryer


Mary Frances is a little girl whose Aunt Maria intends to teach her to knit and crochet, but she's very strict and demanding. It's a good th…

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater


Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

Intimate Talks with Movie Stars

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Edward Weitzel


A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures o…

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 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…

LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

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 …

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,…

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