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Giotto di Bondone è ritenuto il padre della pittura moderna. Egli segna una svolta nel panorama artistico italiano, costringendo tutti i suoi successori, da Masaccio a Michelangelo, a studiare le sue opere per comprenderne la modernità. La vita di Giotto affonda le sue radici nella leggenda: l'apprendistato presso Cimabue, il mistero della Basilica di Assisi, il cerchio perfetto eseguito con un unico tratto della mano. Nonostante le poche notizie certe, ciò che contraddistingue la personalità di Giotto è la capacità di vedere quello che i suoi contemporanei non erano ancora in grado di percepire: un nuovo modo di raffigurare lo spazio.

Geniale e instabile, sensibilissimo e visionario, folle ma dotato di talento straordinario, Vincent Van Gogh può essere considerato colui che ha inventato l'arte contemporanea, e la figura dell'artista "disturbato". La sua vita fu un susseguirsi di vicende traumatiche che contribuirono a sovraccaricare la sua psiche già debole, e allo stesso tempo, ad accrescere la sensibilità che guidò la sua mano e il suo pennello. Durante la sua breve vita creò tele di una bellezza struggente - ben 864 - ma ne vendette soltanto una.

Andy Warhol è stato e continua a essere una delle figure più influenti dell'arte e della cultura contemporanea. La sua vita e il suo lavoro hanno ispirato creativi di tutto il mondo nelle più diverse discipline artistiche. Il suo estro e la sua genialità, applicati su ogni mezzo espressivo disponibile, hanno contribuito al crollo del confine tra cultura d'élite e cultura popolare.

Michelangelo Buonarroti è uno dei più grandi esponenti del Rinascimento italiano. Scultore, pittore e architetto d'immenso talento, grazie al suo genio artistico ha raccontato con le sue opere il periodo storico in cui viveva il governo dei Medici e la rinascita culturale, la repubblica di Firenze, le libertà civiche e il potere e gli intrighi del papato. La personalità cupa e tormentata di Michelangelo gli ha sempre impedito di accontentarsi, imponendogli continuamente di accettare nuove sfide artistiche.

Controverso, rivoluzionario, emozionante, sorprendente... È impossibile elencare tutti gli aggettivi che potrebbero descrivere la figura di Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio. Non basterebbe lo spazio. Eppure, in poco meno di vent'anni anni di carriera artistica, Caravaggio ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia dell'arte mondiale. Ha emozionato i suoi contemporanei del XVI secolo, così come ogni suo quadro lascia a bocca aperta ancora oggi tutti noi.

Adrian Ludwig Richter (Geboren: 28. September 1803 in Dresden; Verstorben: 19. Juni 1884 ebenda) war ein bedeutender Maler und Zeichner der Spätromantik und des Biedermeiers. Berühmt geworden ist er vor allem durch seine Illustrationen von Märchen- und Volksbüchern. Eigentlich aber verstand Ludwig Richter sich als Maler, und zwar als "Landschafter". Deshalb nannte er seine Lebenserinnerungen auch ausdrücklich die eines Malers.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY HARPER’S BAZAAR In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and...

To get a sense of the kind of prestige that Claude Monet enjoys within the art world, one need only learn that his Le Bassin Aux Nympheás (1919) - from his series of paintings featuring water lilies - sold for the equivalent of more than $70 million. This is a staggering price, especially considering that early in his life, Monet had been so poor and debt-ridden that some of his paintings were taken from him by creditors.

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...

Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs.

Here is Jon Krakauer’s portrait of the iconoclastic architect Christopher Alexander, whose revolutionary human-centered approach has shaken the foundations of modern architecture. Krakauer delves into Alexander’s life and career, from his theories on a timeless “pattern language” that...

"Ich denke, ich hatte ein wunderschönes Leben. Ich hatte keine Wünsche, die ich mir nicht erfüllen konnte, und ich habe nahezu alles erreicht, weil ich dafür hart gearbeitet habe." So beschreibt Louis Armstrong kurz vor seinem Tod im Alter von 69 Jahren seinen Lebensweg. Das Lebenswerk des "Satchmo", wie er liebevoll genannt wurde, hinterlässt bis heute seine Spuren. In einem der ärmsten Viertel in New Orleans aufgewachsen, steigt der junge Louis Armstrong zu Weltruhm auf, wie es bis dato kein anderer Jazzmusiker vor ihm erlebt hatte.

Warning: This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, and Chernobyl. When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a "fake artist", creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would save his life.

An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day. He is best-known today for his biographies of artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Giotto. This recording is read with clarity and authority by Neville Jason.

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors...

Beglückend und ermutigend: In ihren neuen Briefen an eine Freundin schreibt Susanna Tamaro über ihren Weg zur inneren Kraft. Es ist ein Weg der Suche und der Stille. Wunderschön poetisch erzählt eine der erfolgreichsten Schriftstellerinnen unserer Zeit, wie sie ihr persönliches Glück findet in einer Welt, die von Tag zu Tag materialistischer und brutaler wird. Dabei geht sie eindringlich auf eine Vielfalt von Lebensfragen ein. Susanna Tamaro (geb. 1957) ist eine italienische Schriftstellerin.

Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of 98. Her vivid visual vocabulary, sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth, had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century.

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit...

Bestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy (yes), and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as Da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.