74 Results for : artistically
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Verona, Vicenza, Lake Garda & the Veneto: Travel Adventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min
Italy's northernmost zone, the Veneto includes Padua, Verona, Vicenza, plus Venice itself, which once ruled the area. Some 5,000 Renaissance villas still stand, many by Palladio. A food- and wine-lover's paradise, it's also the most artistically rich region in Italy, and the most romantic, with the art of Giotto and Mantegna in Padua, the Roman ruins in Verona, the canals and palaces in Venice itself. Bellini, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Titian worked here. Experience their art and be part of their world, with the insights of an insider. Every detail is here about the foods, the sights, the best places to stay and eat. Vicenza is an essential stop on the itineraries of architecture lovers and Palladio's followers, but is unfortunately bypassed by many tourists traveling through the Veneto region who don't realize what it has to offer. This well-kept secret has made remarkable cultural and economical contributions to the region and merits a visit, if only for a few hours. Vicenza is an important Renaissance city with an impressive number of buildings dating back to the 1500s, many of them attributed to Andrea Palladio. It was during this period that Andrea di Pietro della Gondola came to Vicenza as a 16-year-old stone mason and through a combination of his own talent and a fine network of mentors, grew to be the great architect who dramatically transformed Vicenza's urban image. Palladio was commissioned to build palazzi for the city's wealthy residents, redesign several buildings which had been badly damaged by the League of Cambrai and to make the city better reflect the influence of the Republic of Venice. His finest works in the city include the Teatro Olimpico, the Basilica Palladiana, and the Palazzo Chiericati. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Angelo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050534/bk_acx0_050534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Fine Imitation: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min
Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus - the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, Vera is living a life of quiet desperation. Her days are an unbroken loop of empty, champagne-soaked socializing while her nights are silent and cold, spent waiting alone in her cavernous apartment for a husband who seldom comes home. Then Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist moves in to the building, shrouds his work in secrecy, and piques Vera's curiosity, especially when the painter keeps dodging questions about his past. Is he the man he claims to be? Even as she finds herself increasingly drawn to Hallan's warmth and passion, Vera can't suppress her suspicions. After all, she has plenty of secrets, too - and some of them involve art forgers like her bold, artistically talented former friend, Bea, who, years ago at Vassar, brought Vera to the brink of catastrophe and social exile. When the dangerous mysteries of Emil's past are revealed, Vera faces an impossible choice - whether to cling to her familiar world of privilege and propriety or to risk her future with the enigmatic man who has taken her heart. A Fine Imitation explores what happens when we realize that the life we've always led is not the life we want to have. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Whelan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004569/bk_rand_004569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Color Song , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 533min
By the author of the acclaimed Passion Blue, a Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2012 and "a rare, rewarding, sumptuous exploration of artistic passion," comes a fascinating companion novel. Artistically brilliant, Giulia is blessed - or cursed - with a spirit’s gift: she can hear the mysterious singing of the colors as she creates them in the convent workshop of Maestra Humilitá. It’s here that Giulia, forced into the convent against her will, has found unexpected happiness and rekindled her passion to become a painter - an impossible dream for any woman in 15th century Italy. But when a dying Humilitá bequeaths Giulia her most prized possession - the secret formula for the luminously beautiful paint called Passion blue - Giulia realizes she’s in danger from those who have long coveted the famous color. Faced with the prospect of a life in the convent barred from painting as punishment for keeping Humilitá’s secret, Giulia is struck by a desperate idea: What if she disguises herself as a boy? Could she make her way to Venice and find work as an artist’s apprentice? Along with the truth of who she is, Giulia carries more dangerous secrets: the exquisite voices of her paint colors and the formula for Humilitá’s Passion blue. And Venice, she discovers, with its gilded palazzos and masked balls, has secrets of its own. Trapped in her false identity in this dream-like place where reality and reflection are easily confused, and where art and ambition, love and deception hover like dense fog, can Giulia find her way? This stunning, compelling novel explores timeless themes of love and illusion, gender and identity as it asks the question: what does it mean to risk everything to pursue your passion? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006399/bk_brll_006399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bonsai: A Beginner's Guide on How to Cultivate and Care for Bonsai Trees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
If you want to master the ancient craft and science of growing artistic bonsai trees as a hobby and discover the joys of the "living art", then keep reading....Have you ever seen an artistically grown bonsai tree and wondered if you can do that for yourself? Do you want to finally embrace a wholesome hobby that is therapeutic and will help you learn the art of being patient without overexerting yourself?If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then you will enjoy growing and taking care of bonsai.The practice of growing bonsai trees, which originated in the Orient over a thousand years ago, has made its way down to the modern world relatively untouched.The practice of growing bonsai has benefits like being therapeutic and a great stress reliever, purifying the air in your home or living space, and leaving you with a sense of accomplishment, among many others. It's easy to see why the practice isn't going to die out anytime soon.In this comprehensive guide, you're going to learn all the instructions and techniques you need to successfully grow a bonsai tree without fuss. With tips ranging from selecting your bonsai and caring for it, you'll become an expert in growing bonsai in no time.Here's what you're going to discover in this audiobook:The intriguing history of the practice of growing bonsai that will probably blow your mindTypes of bonsai trees and how to figure out which specimen is best for you or your next bonsai projectHow to select the right placement for your bonsai tree, depending on the type of bonsai tree, the season, and your personal preferencesThe simple five-step guideline to help you purchase the very best bonsaiHow to properly care for your bonsai: soil basics, watering, re-potting and moreHow to shape and style your bonsai trees like a proAnd much more!Even if you've never grown a bonsai tre ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H Fehskens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155971/bk_acx0_155971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Recovery from Sexual Harassment (A Series of Therapeutic Children’s Books for Adults and Kids) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
Two psychotherapists, with expertise in sexual abuse and women’s issues, present a method to assist in the recovery from sexual harassment, misconduct, or assault. Nick Sarando’s insightful production creates five versions of Recovery from Sexual Harassment. Each performance adds something uniquely special. This diversity brings recovery to life. Kristin Towers-Rowles is a third generation musical theatre actress. Kristin works non-stop as an actor, singer, director, and comedienne, who radiates spirit, innocence and strength in her reading of the script. Alexys Rodger is a high school student and a model with yet-to-discovered acting talent. Her innocence and girl-next-door narration portrays youthful vulnerability climbing into a new stronger identity. Vanessa Lua is an experienced bilingual actress, comedian, producer, and vocal performer. Her energetic voice provides a girl next door narration. She narrates the book mindfully in the moment using her personal life force. Ifeyinwa Unachukwu is an artistically driven actress, who just did a PSA for a Domestic Violence campaign airing in the United States, London, and Nigeria. Her credits include theatre, comedy, commercials, film, TV, modeling, and voice over. The essence of her performance feels so real, so raw, so perfect, and so strong. Bella Silverstein is an actress and writer. Bella’s wide-ranging acting skills brings real experience to feelings of the sexual victim. Her range moves from factual recitation to anger to soothing to recovery. Bella’s performance is a must hear. Nick Sarando is an actor, director, producer and film script supervisor with over 15 years narration production experience. Nick’s intuitive ability to tap voice and affect from his varied life experience makes him Dr. Fuller’s favorite, “It is like Nick can read my mind even when I write like a dim witted shrink.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bella Silverstein, Kristin Towers Rowles, Vanessa Lua, Ifeyinwa Unachukwu, Nick Sarando, Alexys Rodgers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131027/bk_acx0_131027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Against Nature (Against the Grain) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
Against Nature was one of the most shocking French novels of the 19th century. When it was published in 1884, it thrilled the aesthetes, the poets, and the intellectuals of Europe on both sides of the Channel (notably Oscar Wilde) because for all its lofty tone, it had, as its core, an unbridled decadence, and it was this same character that challenged, even horrified, established bourgeois society. Des Esseintes, a minor aristocrat but a high intellectual - deeply cultured and well-read - can no longer bear contemporary Parisian life in any of its forms! As a youth he had experienced the monastic environment and later academic life, but, remaining unfulfilled, he immersed himself in the multifarious sensual pleasures so readily available in Paris. Still deeply unsatisfied, he decides to move to a house in a village in the countryside. Here he can create his own controlled environment with a minutely designed interior supporting his particular artistic tastes. At last he can live alone with his books, his reflections, and his needs. Nothing will interfere with how he wants to live, what he wants to see, to read, to study, to smell, to eat. However, a life of such total personal indulgence, even on a lofty intellectual and artistically sensitive plane, proves anything but easy - or satisfying. The character of Des Esseintes, intense, testing, infuriating, but astonishing, was said to have been influenced by the famous aesthete of the time, the Comte de Montesquiou (also a model for Baron de Charlus in Proust's In Search of Lost Time), while Against Nature makes an unmistakeable appearance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Nicholas Boulton here reads one of the best early translations (published anonymously and originally titled Against the Grain), which has been revised to reinstate sections originally cut to protect sensibilities of the time. It is the full novel as Huysmans intended. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Boulton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000054/bk_dhrm_000054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Druid of Death: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
On the morning of the vernal equinox in 1899, Holmes is roused from his bed by Lestrade. The inspector has received a report of a girl brutally murdered at Stonehenge.Upon arriving at the famed site, Holmes discovers the body of a young woman. On her forehead, painted in blood, is a druidic symbol. On her side, also in blood, is a message written in a strange language that neither Holmes nor Lestrade can decipher. The girl was also eviscerated and her organs placed around her body. As a final touch, branches from yew trees had been artistically arranged around the corpse.Holmes senses a malevolent force at work, but without data, he is powerless. As the weeks pass, he slowly gathers information about the ancient druids and Celtic mythology and begins to assemble a small army of experts to assist him.Expecting the killer to strike again on the summer solstice, Holmes and Watson travel to the Nine Ladies in Derbyshire, the site of another stone circle that harkens to druidic times. While they are holding their vigil, Lestrade and his men are off keeping watch over the stone circles at Avebury and several other locations.The Great Detective's worst fears are realized when on the morning of the summer solstice, he learns that the body of a young man has been discovered in the eye of the White Horse of Uffington. Like the first victim, he too has been marked with a druidic symbol and his body bears a message. Aside from the symbol and the message, the only other difference appears to be that his body and organs have been surrounded by willow branches.Realizing full well that a maniac reminiscent of the Ripper is on the loose, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race against time as they try to locate the cult, identify the killer and prevent another tragedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Peever. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124482/bk_acx0_124482_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Happy Return , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
Exclusively from Audible The year is 1808 and somewhere off the coast of Nicaragua, C.S. Forester's hero returns, ready to embark on his next swashbuckling adventure. The fifth instalment in the series, The Happy Return follows Captain Horatio Hornblower as he commands the thirty-six-gun frigate, HMS Lydia. Sent out on a mission to weaken the colonial Spanish government, Horatio must form an alliance with a narcissistic revolutionary leader with delusions of grandeur, who goes by the name of 'El Supremo'. Simultaneously faced with an advancing Spanish fleet and their far superior fifty-gun ship, Natividad, Horatio must find a way to 'take, sink, burn or destroy' his enemies or fail and be made to face the British courts. Adding insult to injury, Horatio is furthermore challenged by the arrival of a singularly attractive passenger, the influential Lady Barbara Wellesley. Vulnerable, alone and seeking passage to England, Horatio cannot refuse the lady, but as a happily married man, he finds himself tortured by Barbara's tempting nature and astounding beauty. An English novelist, C.S. Forester was highly praised by his contemporaries for his Napoleonic naval warfare series, and later for the publication of The African Queen. Despite his natural ability and endless imagination, Forester came to writing much later than expected. Having originally studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, it was only after his travels with the Royal Navy that he was artistically inspired, developing in particular, a fervent love of story-telling. Sadly stricken with arteriosclerosis whilst voyaging to the Bering Sea, C.S. Forester was crippled in his later life, but his imagination and his skill with a pen survived for years to come. Narrator Biography Christian Rodska is an English television and voice actor best known for his role in the 1970s series Follyfoot. From The Monum ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rodska. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003927/bk_bbcw_003927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Avedon: Something Personal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1377min
An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times) by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer - as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the road to find and photograph remarkable uncelebrated faces, with an eye toward constructing a grand composite picture of America. Avedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. He possessed a mystique so unique it was itself a kind of genius - everyone fell under his spell. But the Richard Avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: He relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for 30 years was his business partner and closest confidante. In Avedon: Something Personal - equal parts memoir, biography, and oral history, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studio - Stevens and coauthor Steven M. L. Aronson masterfully trace Avedon’s life from his birth to his death, in 2004, at the age of 81, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker (whose first-ever staff photographer he had become in 1992). The book contains startlingly candid reminiscences by Mike Nichols, Calvin Klein, Claude Picasso, Renata Adler, Brooke Shields, David Remnick, Naomi Campbell, Twyla Tharp, Jerry Hall, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bruce Weber, Cindy Crawford, Donatella Versace, Jann Wenner, and Isabella Ro ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005181/bk_rand_005181_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader team up against a threat to the Empire in this thrilling novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. I have sensed a disturbance in the Force. Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful agents: ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant strategist Grand Admiral Thrawn. Fierce rivals for the emperor s favor, and outspoken adversaries on Imperial affairs including the Death Star project the formidable pair seem unlikely partners for such a crucial mission. But the Emperor knows it s not the first time Vader and Thrawn have joined forces. And there s more behind his royal command than either man suspects.In what seems like a lifetime ago, General Anakin Skywalker of the Galactic Republic, and Commander Mitth raw nuruodo, officer of the Chiss Ascendancy, crossed paths for the first time. One on a desperate personal quest, the other with motives unknown . . . and undisclosed. But facing a gauntlet of dangers on a far-flung world, they forged an uneasy alliance neither remotely aware of what their futures held in store.Now, thrust together once more, they find themselves bound again for the planet where they once fought side by side. There they will be doubly challenged by a test of their allegiance to the Empire . . . and an enemy that threatens even their combined might.Praise for Thrawn: AlliancesIt s a science fiction beach read in the best way, brisk and amusing, with some cool additions to the Star Wars galaxy. Den of GeekLike all of Zahn s novels set in a galaxy far, far away, it s an essential read for anyone looking for an artistically done adventure. CNET- Shop: buecher
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