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Living Biographies of Great Painters
The Living Biographies Series (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dana Lee Thomas
- Narrator
- Pat Bottino
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 22 June 2005
- Run Time
- 11 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Diego Velasquez, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Turner, Goya, Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, Van Gogh, Whistler, Renoir, Cézanne, and Winslow Homer.
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Details
- Author
- Dana Lee Thomas
- Narrator
- Pat Bottino
- Duration
- 11 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 22 June 2005
- ISBN
- 9781481598149
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: general, Individual artists, art monographs, Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual photographers, Biography: general, Biography: historical, political and military
Synopsis
To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Diego Velasquez, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Turner, Goya, Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, Van Gogh, Whistler, Renoir, Cézanne, and Winslow Homer.
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