18 books like Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori

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The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone · 1958 · ★ 4.1 · 664p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Mr. Stone gives his signature style and thought to this story of Michelangelo. He points out often in this book that Michelangelo, before beginning a work, asks what it is he is trying to capture in the moment of his painting, sculpture, or poem. So it is with Mr. Stone. He wants to portray, as close as he can find, the moments of the life of this artist. What shaped him, what he loved, what (and… Shares: Artists, Italy, Biography & Memoir, History

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds · 1892 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Challenging This is a story of Buonarroti Simoni, to whom Michelangelo belonged, were a Florentine family of ancient burgher nobility. Shares: Artists, Biography & Memoir

Enigmas en el Arte Manuel Jesús Segado-Uceda · 2021 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate «La Historia del Arte está repleta de tesoros por descubrir, a pesar de que suelen estar a la vista de quien contempla el cuadro o la escultura en la que están disimulados. Manuel Jesús Segado-Uceda nos ofrece en esta obra algunos ejemplos maravillosos. El lector se sentirá ante uno de esos pasatiempos que contienen errores por descubrir y que están ante sus ojos, pero tan bien disimulados, que… Shares: Art, History

Van Gogh Federico Zeri · 1937 · ★ 4.1 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They inclu Shares: Painters, Artists, Biography & Memoir, History

Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780 William Beckford · 1780 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Shares: Painters, Art

The moon and sixpence William Somerset Maugham · 1919 · ★ 4.1 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter. Shares: Painters, Artists

Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or… Shares: Artists, Biography & Memoir

Picasso William S. Lieberman · 1932 · ★ 3.6 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Text describes several works from Picasso's Blue and Rose periods. Ten color plates, including one on the front cover, are included. Shares: Portraits, Art, Biography & Memoir

Time and Again Jack Finney · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate [Comment by Audrey Niffenegger, on The Guardian's website][1]: Time and Again is an original; there is nothing quite like it. It is the story of Si Morley, a commercial artist who is drawing a piece of soap one ordinary day in 1970 when a mysterious man from the US Army shows up at his Manhattan office to recruit him for a secret government project. The project turns out to involve time travel;… Shares: Artists, History

Etruscan places D. H. Lawrence · 1674 · ★ 3.8 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of ‘Women In Love’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values. This of course did not deter him. At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more… Shares: Italy, Art

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890 · ★ 4.1 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. (Source: Wikipedia) Shares: Portraits, History

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Feininger · 1950 · 50p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Lyonel und Julia: Von der Kunst, zu lieben. Eine schicksalshafte Liebesgeschichte, erzählt in größtenteils nie veröffentlichten Briefen. Zugleich ein Zeugnis vom Arbeiten und Leben des großen Malers, pünktlich zu seinem 150. Geburtstag.Im Juli 1905 treffen Lyonel Feininger und Julia Berg im Zug Richtung Ostsee jeweils die Liebe ihres Lebens. Beide sind verheiratet, doch schnell ist ihnen klar,… Shares: Painters, Biography & Memoir

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright · 1900 · ★ 3.8 · 75p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "The most influential, provocative, and enduring writings of the American master are gathered in this anthology. Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright's extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s, when the architect exerted a powerful influence on the developing modern movement. A concise biography, explanatory head notes, and a short… Shares: Architects, Biography & Memoir, History

Max Ernst Max Ernst · 1956 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Max Ernst: Life and Work draws on an unprecedented collection of source material, much of it published here for the first time, to present a compelling portrait of the artist's life and an intellectual portrait of an entire period. These letters and notes by friends and contemporaries provide insight into the reception of his oeuvre, illustrate Ernst's own texts and shed light on his… Shares: Portraits, Art, Biography & Memoir

El túnel Ernesto Sabato · 1948 · ★ 4.0 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art exhibition. She is married to a blind man -the subject of Sabato and Saramago's obsession- and has a house in the countryside. She is also the mistress of her own cousin. Castel discovers this and goes mad with jealousy. We have no way to know the truth, because everything in the novel happens… Shares: Painters, Artists

I Like What I Know Vincent Price · 1959 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Vincent Price—best known until recently for his career in the theatre and motion pictures—recounts here the delightful story of his lifelong love affair with the art world. In I LIKE WHAT I KNOW, Vincent Price writes of his early consciousness of the art around him, and of his first art acquisition—which he paid for with money earned at odd jobs. He recalls his trip to Europe at the age of… Shares: Art, Biography & Memoir

Le Corbusier Le Corbusier · 1938 · ★ 3.8 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society… Shares: Architects, History

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer · 1982 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Holzer has been at the forefront of American art since her work first came to prominence in the early 1980s. She is known for text based works which may appear as spectacular electronic signs, T shirts or carved marble benches. Shares: Artists, Art

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