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"Citizens and Kings", the new blockbuster show at the Royal Academy in London, contains an almost overwhelming number of celebrated paintings and sculptures, even if one or two of them, such as Jacques-Louis David’s Marat Assassiné, turn out to be studio versions rather than the real thing.
The show aims to trace the shift in attitudes towards the human personality that was set in motion by the American and French Revolutions and the wars associated with these great political and social upheavals. It is, quite literally, a history lesson conducted with the help of famous work of art, and to appreciate it fully, you have to carry the historical outline in your head - not merely the story of how governments rose and fell, but the pattern of cultural transformation as well.
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What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A simply wonderful book with a serious flaw
- De 11104 en 05-02-21
De: Will Gompertz
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Eye of the Beholder
- Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
- De: Laura Snyder
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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"See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the scientific revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses and created paintings filled with realistic effects of light and shadow. The hub of this optical innovation was the small Dutch city of Delft.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical book about the evolution of optics through the eyes of two geniuses
- De Memi en 04-12-17
De: Laura Snyder
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This foray into art history is a disappointment.
- De Stephen J Chiulli en 11-10-21
De: Mary Beard
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Confronting the Classics
- Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Lynne Jenson
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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One of the world's leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century. Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people - the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoying narrator
- De Chris E en 02-27-15
De: Mary Beard
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The Judgment of Paris
- The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tristan Layton
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris. The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amid scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been, at its inception, quite so controversial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Try this!
- De Robert en 10-28-08
De: Ross King
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- De: Richard Cohen
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing 20 pages from book
- De Rick, Austin en 04-23-22
De: Richard Cohen
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The Oldest Enigma of Humanity
- De: Bertrand David, Jean-Jacques Lefrere
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? Scholars and archaeologists have for centuries pored over these works of art, speculating and hoping to come away with the key to the mystery. David and Lefrre give us a new understanding of an art lost in time, revealing what had until recently remained unexplainable - the oldest enigma in humanity has been solved.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing conclusion that will change your views
- De D en 05-13-15
De: Bertrand David, y otros
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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- De: Franny Moyle
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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J. M. W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated system of patronage. Bringing a new level of expression and color to his canvases, he paved the way for the modern artist.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration drags down adequate bio
- De Lynn en 10-19-20
De: Franny Moyle
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Leonardo and the Last Supper
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art - The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
De: Ross King
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- De: Christopher de Hamel
- Narrado por: Christopher de Hamel
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for this book, which is entirely new, is to invite the listener into an intimate conversation with a selection of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to let each of those manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages and sometimes the modern world too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've been waiting a long time for a book like this
- De Robert en 04-15-18
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What the Ermine Saw
- The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait
- De: Eden Collinsworth
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo’s genius would not only capture Cecilia’s beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardo’s brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Cecilia’s soul.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So Many Names
- De Sue Solomon en 12-13-22
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- De: Laura Cumming
- Narrado por: Siobhan Redmond
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young - too young to be king - and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed. Snare had found something incredible - but what? His research brought him to Diego Velázquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating study of art history
- De Ron en 07-02-16
De: Laura Cumming
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The History of Western Art
- De: Peter Whitfield
- Narrado por: Sebastian Comberti
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whirlwind tour of Western art
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-18-12
De: Peter Whitfield
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Descartes' Bones
- A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely deathfar from home. Sixteen years later, the pious French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who washounded from country after country on charges of atheism?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Philosophy of Modernity
- De Roger en 06-17-09
De: Russell Shorto
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The Renaissance
- A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Richard L. Walton
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then pay attention.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Monotone reader
- De Harry R. Martin en 08-07-19
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- De: Hugh Eakin
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 144
In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Better Books on Picasso Available
- De john burke en 08-17-22
De: Hugh Eakin