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A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced it.
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished. Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity, and his illustrations went missing for 400 years.
The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. Today, Botticelli’s Primavera adorns household objects of every kind. This book is essential to explain not only how and why this artist became iconic, but why we need still need his work―and the spirit of the Renaissance―today.
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. During the four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent laboring over the ceiling, power politics and personal rivalries swirled around him. He battled ill health, financial and family difficulties, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the Pope's impatience - a history that is more compelling than most novels.
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History brought to life!
- De Anne en 05-17-03
De: Ross King
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.
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Narrator ruins the narrative
- De amavita en 03-24-22
De: Paul Strathern
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Brunelleschi's Dome
- How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction.
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Great history with terrible narration
- De Whiskey Mike en 12-16-21
De: Ross King
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The Bookseller of Florence
- The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.
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Great book, Horrible narrator
- De Sergio Remon en 07-01-21
De: Ross King
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Raphael, Painter in Rome
- A Novel
- De: Stephanie Storey
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo's fiercest rival - the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Orphaned at age 11, Raphael is determined to keep the deathbed promise he made to his father: become the greatest artist in history. But to be the best, he must beat the best, the legendary sculptor of the David, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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Not to the standards of Ms Story
- De Amazon Customer en 08-05-20
De: Stephanie Storey
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The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance
- How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
- De: Paul Robert Walker
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its designer was Filippo Brunelleschi, a temperamental architect and inventor who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. Yet the completion of the dome was not Brunelleschi’s glory alone. He was forced to share the commission with his archrival, the canny and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti.
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Detailed history of the early Italian Renaissance
- De Roger en 11-30-22
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. During the four extraordinary years that Michelangelo spent laboring over the ceiling, power politics and personal rivalries swirled around him. He battled ill health, financial and family difficulties, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the Pope's impatience - a history that is more compelling than most novels.
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History brought to life!
- De Anne en 05-17-03
De: Ross King
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When Women Ruled the World
- Making the Renaissance in Europe
- De: Maureen Quilligan
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars - yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones, most notably Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de' Medici.
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NO GIANTS AMONG US
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 07-02-23
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Have You Eaten Yet?
- Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
- De: Cheuk Kwan
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unraveling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan describes a fascinating story of culture and place, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story.
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wonderful history of Chinese diaspora and food
- De Victoria en 03-06-23
De: Cheuk Kwan
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- De: William E. Wallace
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering.
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Michelangelo, architect, urban designer, artist
- De Marco en 09-16-20
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Gossip
- De Amazon Customer en 10-02-19
De: Paul Strathern
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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- De: James Gardner
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum.
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Enlightening
- De Jean en 10-29-20
De: James Gardner
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Oil and Marble
- A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
- De: Stephanie Storey
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome 50-year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-20s, desperate to make a name for himself. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David.
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Fact and Fiction Fuse for a Great Listen
- De bec/audiothing en 07-21-16
De: Stephanie Storey
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The Upside-Down World
- Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- De: Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was.
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Great Book
- De PaulB en 02-29-24
De: Benjamin Moser
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The Lives of the Artists
- De: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 22 h y 26 m
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.
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Awesome
- De Daniel en 05-17-19
De: Giorgio Vasari, y otros
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic's eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history.
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Mesmerizing
- De Gary R. Frank en 08-24-15
De: Paul Strathern
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
- Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man's perceptions - and the course of Western history.
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A Very Good Book (Just Not As Good As Others)
- De George Monnat Jr en 02-18-19
De: Paul Strathern
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Everyday Life in Medieval London
- From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
- De: Toni Mount
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Our capital city has always been a thriving and colorful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business. Abandoned by the Romans, rebuilt by the Saxons, occupied by the Vikings and reconstructed by the Normans, London would become the largest trade and financial center, dominating the world in later centuries. London has always been a brilliant, vibrant, and eclectic place.
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Interesting
- De Faycal Ikhouane en 01-16-24
De: Toni Mount
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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Fun Story Bad History
- De Elizabeth Barrett en 05-09-16
De: Paul Strathern
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Botticelli's Secret
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- James R. Modrall
- 06-07-23
Not so secret
The two halves of the book are very different - the first is an entertaining but not especially original intro to Renaissance Florence in which Botticelli doesn't play a very prominent role. The second is an overview of Western attitudes towards Renaissance art. Many interesting characters appear, including Burckhardt, Pater, Ruskin, Horne and Berenson. This would be a great topic for a standalone book but the effort to tie everything back to Botticelli in general and his Dante drawings especially is unconvincing. The reader is generally fine but his habit of putting on fake accents for translated quotations is annoying.
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- JR from Dallas
- 12-09-22
Highly Recommend
Great book by an outstanding author. Serves both as an overview of the time period and in-depth look at Botticelli, his art and his illustrations of Dante's wondrous poem, La Divina Commedia.
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- w.l.
- 04-04-23
Unevenly interesting
I found the beginning of the book interesting, after that, the author dug into side roads to trace the provenance of Botticelli. When he placed things in the Florentine Renaissance, offering up tales of people that were part of the scene around Botticelli, I was interested. When he traced the scholars, I was not interested and could barely pay attention.
I guess it depends on what you are looking for.
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- Lina
- 05-13-23
Interesting
The story is really interesting, but naration trying to make accents is really unnecesary and irritating sometimes.
Overall, I learned new things about Dante and Botticelli
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- Eileen
- 06-09-24
A deeper understanding of that period of history
Learning more of those times and the impact of the politics of art and how the powerful few controlled it. And interesting to follow the circuitous route that artists and their work takes throughout history, and only surviving by those individuals passionate to share art with the world. I appreciated the authors epilogue, but saddened that so many great works of art are still kept from the public and are being hyper controlled within the vast riches of the Roman Catholic Church. So hypocritical and elitist. Real shame.
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- Monhegan Monarch
- 05-02-23
The reader doesn’t get it…
Content is interesting so I listened to the end. The reader used a variety of accents to evidently add interest, and or credibility to the text. It became very annoying because his accents are not that great, and it interrupted the flow of the story. It may be that he assumed the listeners were novices to this type of story?
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- Ellen Nicole Allen
- 04-04-23
Dry style. Except for the epilogue
Interesting and well researched information but presented in a fairly dry way. Until I got to the epilogue. It made me wish he had written the entire book with a more personal style. Really made it come alive like a majority of the book did not. But it’s still worth the listen I think.
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- B. Thompson
- 04-11-23
Loved it!
Really enjoyed this. Art history is a hobby and learned a great deal. Might be a bit dry but still very enjoyable.
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- giovani
- 08-03-23
Disappointing
There are some jewels here. However they are embedded within a sea of trivialities. The writing is good but full of sloppy redundancy. Above all the phony accents are pathetic and distracting.
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- Xavier M
- 04-17-23
Great historical review of such timeless art
It was great to be the backstory to one of the most famous works in Florentine history. Loved the way we learned about Dante and more importantly the role of Botticelli and his history.
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