Art History Renaissance

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    • A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Volume 5
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 5
    • Length: 37 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-14
    • Language: English
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    • The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers of the Renaissance....

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    • By: Walter Pater
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Published in 1873, Studies in the History of the Renaissance is considered one of the most influential works in the field of aestheticism. The book is a collection of essays that explore various artists of the Renaissance period, focusing primarily on the art, culture, and philosophy of the time.

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    • Tracing the Renaissance, Unification, and the Lively Evolution of Art and Culture
    • By: Dominic Haynes
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bower
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • Whether you’re a student of Italian history looking for a refresher or a brand-new learner looking for an introduction, this book is a concise, easy-to-follow overview of the major players, events, and forces in Italian history, from antiquity to today....

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    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-12
    • Language: English
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    • The 15th century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture....

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    • Arts
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Leah Vandenburg
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-09
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the Renaissance period with iMindsJNR audio-learning series for younger minds....

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    • How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
    • By: Paul Robert Walker
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Joining the best sellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance....

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    • The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
    • By: Franny Moyle
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror....

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    • A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
    • By: Andrea Di Robilant
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Andrea di Robilant brings to vivid life a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, who anonymously assembled and edited three volumes—over two million words—that revealed our world as never before.

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    • An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Rebirth in Arts, Science and Culture (Historical Periods)
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • If so, you are already somewhat familiar with the Renaissance, which saw a rebirth in the arts and science. Great strides were made in several fields, and many men made a name for themselves by creating masterpieces or developing new theories, even if some people found them controversial....

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    • The Giants of Science, Book 1
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a 15th-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children’s ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist....

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    • The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
    • By: Anthony Grafton
    • Narrated by: Nick Pearse
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men of the High Renaissance who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse....

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    • Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
    • By: Ramie Targoff
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'....

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    • Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
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    • Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....

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    • How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon
    • By: Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Christopher Heath Brown
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Michelangelo created some of the world's most recognizable art, from the statue of David to the intricate ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel. Beyond his well-known painting and sculpting, he was a gifted poet and architect....

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    • Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
    • By: Ingrid Rossellini
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • Know Thyself will reintroduce listeners to the most profound and enduring ways our civilization has framed the issues of self and society, in the process helping us rediscover the very building blocks of our personality....

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