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Art Masterpieces
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud's Art Masterpieces is a collection of essays on some of the most important works of art ever created.
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The Renaissance
by John Pruskin Ph.D.
Available on: Audio Download ($4.99)
Starting from a general view of the economic, cultural and political climate of western Europe, Pruskin then takes us south to where the ideal of the renaissance holds the most sway over our collective imaginations: Italy.
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The Lives of the Great Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
Available on: Audio Download ($33.58) | Audio CD ($34.98)
Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s Lives of the Artists remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the fifteenth century.
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10 Masterpieces of the Louvre (Volume 1)
by Erik Bjork
Available on: Audio Download ($9.35)
Discover the world of sculpture and painting with an extra-dimension: sound. From your home, commentaries glazed with coloured soundscapes present you with 10 famous masterpieces from the Louvre...
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Rembrandt
by Gary Schwartz
Available on: Audio Download ($33.50)
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Art and the Bible
by Francis Schaeffer
Available on: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio CD ($12.98)
The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts, writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God."
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The Glory That Was Greece: Greek Art and Archaeology
by Jennifer Tobin
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
No ancient society has exerted greater influence on the development of Western culture than the ancient Greeks.
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The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD
This dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture explores the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. Alain de Botton argues that our environment heavily influences who we can be.
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Art's Prospect
by Roger Kimball
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In this series of essays written over the past twenty years, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art.
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Basilica
by R.A. Scotti
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
In this swift, colorful narrative, Scotti brings to life the artists and the popes, the politics and the passions behind this audacious enterprise. Scotti turns sacred architecture into a spellbinding human epic of enormous daring, petty jealousy, and staggering genius.
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The City: A Global History
by Joel Kotkin
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49)
In this erudite and enjoyable Los Angeles Times best-seller, Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order.
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