Category Archives: Art, Design & Architecture

Audiobook: Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

“A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous

Audiobook: Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900’s, writes about the different

Audiobook: Speaking Voice

From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: “This book

Audiobook: Great Artists: Volume 1

Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Greek View of Life

“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible

Audiobook: Two Paths

“The Two Paths” is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by

Audiobook: Seven Lamps of Architecture

The Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in May 1849, is an extended essay written by

Audiobook: Stones of Venice, Volume 1

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English

Audiobook: Stones of Venice, Volume 2

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English

Audiobook: Stones of Venice, Volume 3

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Real Latin Quarter

“Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière”–this in my best restaurant French. The man with the

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Practice and Science of Drawing

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Tower of London

A short book, whose chapters were originally published in The Daily Mail, which explores the

Audiobook: Art of Bookbinding

This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology

Audiobook: Little Tour in France

A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week

Audiobook: Thoughts on Art and Life

This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da

Audiobook: Gentle Art of Faking

IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation

Audiobook: History of the Suez Canal

A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859

Audiobook: Theory of Colours

Newton’s observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between

Audiobook: Color Notation

A Color Notation is a method developed by A. H. Munsell in order to produce

Audiobook: Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a

Audiobook: Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his

Audiobook: Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia

Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian

Audiobook: Dial, May 1920

An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry