World Art History

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,457 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • The Florentines presents a sweeping and magisterial 400-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance....

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    • The Riveting Saga of World War II's Daredevil Women Correspondents
    • By: Nancy Caldwell Sorel
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The compelling tale of a hundred brave American women who after leaving their families joined combat-zone fighting during World War II to chronicle and report faithfully back to the States....

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    • A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000
    • By: James Stourton
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On October 15, 1958, Sotheby's of Bond Street staged an "event sale” of seven Impressionist paintings. The seven lots went for £781,000—at the time the highest price for a single sale. The event established London as the world center of the art market.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Dana Arnold
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history....

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    • By: Hiroaki Sato
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
    • By: Ulrich Boser
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case....

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    • The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
    • By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - translator
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code....

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    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Ukraine and the Art of Strategy provides an account of the origins and course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the lens of strategy....

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • By: Robert Capa
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From Sicily to London, Normandy to Algiers, Capa experienced some of the most trying conditions imaginable, yet his compassion and wit shine throughout this book. Charming and profound, Slightly Out of Focus is a marvelous memoir told by an extraordinary man....

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    • The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Mary Beard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity....

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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces....

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    • A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
    • By: Richard Cohen
    • Narrated by: Richard Cohen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since....

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    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 645 ratings
    • From military officers to CEOs to those simply looking to be more powerful in their own life, The Art of War has become required reading for anyone seeking a path of success through the modern world.....

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