Design & Architecture
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…
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…
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
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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…
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
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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…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Read by Peter Yearsley
William Chambers
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…
Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art
Read by TR Love
Thomas Carr Howe
"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…
Rosa Bonheur
Read by Susan Morin
François Crastre
A Masterpieces in Colour series book. Very informative with a biography and critique of the artist's work and how well she was beloved. (Sum…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7
Read by Rita Boutros
Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
The Revolutions of Civilization
Read by Leon Harvey
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…
Understanding English Cathedrals: Terminology, Architecture, Organization, And …
Read by David Wales
Esther Singleton
This recording comprises chapters from two different works: How To Visit The English Cathedrals (1912) by Esther Singleton, and The Cathedr…
The Color of a Great City
Read by Lee Smalley
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser was highly acclaimed for his novels and other writing. This non-fiction work takes place in many areas of New York City in …
Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the School of the Japanese Colour-print Artists
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Dora Amsden
Ukiyo-ye prepared Japan for intercourse with other nations by developing in the common people an interest in other countries, in science and…