10 must-read art books like The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

The Agony and the Ecstasy

By: Irving Stone , None

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special …

If you liked the art plot in The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone, None , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal

1. The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

By: Edmund de Waal

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned li… read more

Similar categories in Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • historical
"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch."

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

"Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?"

-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Cover of Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 by Gilles Néret

2. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

By: Gilles Néret

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more

Similar categories in Gilles Néret's Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • art history
"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"

-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

"This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, a…"

-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"

-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Cover of Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

3. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Loomis's Figure Drawing for All It's Worth book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • classics
"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Cover of Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey

4. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

By: Stephanie Storey

4.37

Format: None pages,

From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. L… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • art history
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Ways of Seeing

By: John Berger

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more

Similar categories in John Berger's Ways of Seeing book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • art history
Cover of Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

6. Leonardo's Notebooks

By: Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international … read more

Similar categories in Leonardo da Vinci's Leonardo's Notebooks book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • classics
Cover of The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

7. The Art Forger

By: B.A. Shapiro

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Shapiro's The Art Forger book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Pompeii by Robert   Harris

8. Pompeii

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Pompeii book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • italy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

9. The Agony and the Ecstasy

By: Irving Stone , None

4.40

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special … read more

Similar categories in Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • italy
  • art
  • art history
  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

10. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

By: Vincent van Gogh , Mark Roskill , Arnold J. Pomerans , Ronald de Leeuw

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters,The Letters of Vincent va… read more

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11. Dali: The Paintings

By: Gilles Néret , Robert Descharnes

3.50

Format: 140 pages,

This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dali (1904-1989). After many years … read more

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12. The Lives of the Artists

By: Peter Bondanella , Giorgio Vasari , None

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's coll… read more

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13. The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice

By: Laura Morelli

4.75

Format: 140 pages,

Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes kn… read more

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14. History of Art

By: H.W. Janson , Anthony F. Janson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For 1000s of art lovers both amateur & professional, esthetic life began with Janson, as his Histor… read more

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15. An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

By: Danny Gregory

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Find Insight and Inspiration for Your Creative Life An artist's journal is packed with sketches and… read more

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16. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

By: Ross King

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more

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17. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

By: Frank Warren

3.76

Format: 85 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were si… read more

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18. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

By: Robert Henri , None , None

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert … read more

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Cover of Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece by Yvonne Korshak

19. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Cover of The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

20. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

Similar categories in Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • art history
  • historical
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

Cover of Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh

21. Van Gogh: The Life

By: Steven Naifeh

4.18

Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more

Similar categories in Steven Naifeh's Van Gogh: The Life book and Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • art
  • art history
  • historical
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"

-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life

5 Best fiction books like The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Transform Your Habits

Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Stephanie Storey

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Art Forger

B.A. Shapiro

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Pompeii

Robert Harris

3.56

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Irving Stone , None

4.40

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6 Best nonfiction books like Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

Transform Your Habits

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Gilles Néret

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Faeries

Brian Froud , Alan Lee

0.00

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.24

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