Design & Architecture
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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Benedetto Croce
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks t…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
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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…
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2
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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 …
A Prairie Sunset
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Prairie Sunset by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 28, 2011.Walt…
The Practice and Science of Drawing
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Harold Speed
This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4
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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…
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
Just Me
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Pearl White
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
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…
A Little Tour in France
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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…
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 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
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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
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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…
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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 …