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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- Narrado por: Simon Callow
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In this audiobook, acclaimed actor Simon Callow narrates the gripping untold story of Michelangelo's final decades - and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance
As he entered his 70s, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life.
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. Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razor-sharp intellect, Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start over.
Leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelo’s biography, revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman. The challenge of building St. Peter’s deepened Michelangelo’s faith, Wallace shows. Fighting the intrigues of church politics and his own declining health, Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived. And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design.
William E. Wallace is the Barbara Murphy Bryant distinguished professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include Discovering Michelangelo: The Art Lover's Guide to Understanding Michelangelo's Masterpieces, Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times, and Michelangelo at San Lorenzo.
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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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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
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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Genius of Michelangelo
- De: William E. Wallace, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: William E. Wallace
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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In The Genius of Michelangelo, internationally recognized Michelangelo expert and award-winning Professor of Art History William E. Wallace gives you a comprehensive perspective on one of history's greatest artists, unavailable in any other course. Drawing on a vast command of artistic knowledge and period detail, these 36 intellectually rewarding and dazzling lectures explore the relationship between truth and legend to reveal a groundbreaking new picture of Michelangelo as an artist, a businessman, an aristocrat, and a genius.
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Very good, but . . .
- De Mallard en 07-12-20
De: William E. Wallace, y otros
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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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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 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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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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Informative yet creative
- De Isabellabasil en 05-27-15
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 History of Western Art
- De: Peter Whitfield
- Narrado por: Sebastian Comberti
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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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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A whirlwind tour of Western art
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-18-12
De: Peter Whitfield
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
- A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
- De: Irving Stone
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 33 h y 54 m
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This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna.
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One of the Best Historical Novels Ever Written
- De Amazon Customer en 03-22-12
De: Irving Stone
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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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.
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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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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Caravaggio
- A Life Sacred and Profane
- De: Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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In the tradition of John Richardson's Picasso, a commanding new biography of the Italian master's tumultuous life and mysterious death. For four hundred years Caravaggio's (1571-1610) staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory - the murder of Ranuccio Tomasini, the doubt surrounding Caravaggio's sexuality, the chain of events that began with his imprisonment on Malta and ended with his premature death - has long confounded historians.
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Interesting life
- De Jean en 08-28-13
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Paris and Her Cathedrals
- De: R. Howard Bloch
- Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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For history buffs, travelers, and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris.
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Take this with you to the Cathedrals!
- De Jenn Cohen en 03-08-24
De: R. Howard Bloch
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Leonardo da Vinci
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Alfred Molina
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.
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Wish the sample was not from the preface!
- De Chris M. en 11-13-17
De: Walter Isaacson
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Basilica
- The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
- De: R.A. Scotti
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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It was the splendor and the scandal of the age. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe, the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave, to build a better basilica.
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Spell binding
- De Margaret en 10-17-07
De: R.A. Scotti
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Michelangelo
- De: George Bull
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 18 h y 45 m
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was recognized in his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a succession of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with terribilita, or intense emotional power.
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Excellent biography for those with some background
- De Penelope en 08-13-13
De: George Bull
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Ibn Khaldun
- An Intellectual Biography
- De: Robert Irwin
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
- De Moh 3aly en 01-02-19
De: Robert Irwin
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The Parthenon
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Joan Walker
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At once an entrancing cultural history and a congenial guide for tourists, armchair travelers, and amateur archaeologists alike, this audiobook conducts listeners through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world.
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She made a scholarly subject so comprehensible for lay-people.
- De Amazing en 08-21-24
De: Mary Beard
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The Portraitist
- Frans Hals and His World
- De: Steven M. Nadler
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about what portraiture can do and what a painting should look like. Hals was a member of the great trifecta of Dutch Baroque painters alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, and he was the portraitist of choice in the Dutch Golden Age. Steven Nadler gives us the first full-length biography of Hals in many years and offers a view into seventeenth-century Haarlem and this culturally rich era of the Dutch Republic.
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Not just Hal’s - also Harlem - excellent account of both.
- De Joseph Keiffer en 12-29-23
De: Steven M. Nadler
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Michelangelo, God's Architect
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- Stephen P.
- 02-21-23
Michelangelo the creative genius
I loved the focus on Michelangelo's' last 20 years. He was so focused on his work and appeared to come to storm level peace as opposed to turbulent storm level.
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- Marco
- 09-16-20
Michelangelo, architect, urban designer, artist
A must read for architects, urban planners and artists and everyone interested in creative industries. Definitely inspiring!
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- robert
- 07-07-21
PDF is poor
Overall, an important work. A companion PDF is a good idea, especially for an art book. But the PDF is poor. Images are limited, of poor quality and surprisingly, no image of The Moses.
Mr. Callow's narration is great.
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- Mallard
- 05-15-20
Not what I expected
The Audible blurb for this book highlighted Michaelangelo's work on St. Peter's as the main subject of the book. In truth only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the book is devoted to St. Peter's. The author doesn't even get to the subject until the third chapter. The remainder of the book covers Michelangelo dealing with old age, the workings of the Vatican and the Popes, and the rest of Michelangelo's late works. If that is what you are interested in, then you will enjoy the book. Since I was expecting more about St. Peter's, I wasn't captivated by it.
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