Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying ebook proprietors reply to and aid improve a transforming into difficulty with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterised the non secular lifetime of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual (Dover Art Instruction)

This vintage of paintings guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the nice Victorian artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer quite a bit via bona fide imitation, as through reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up by way of a contemplation of Nature .

Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

For over 50 years, Playboy journal has showcased the world's top and brightest cartoonists. Their wonderful solid of artists contains luminaries reminiscent of dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and thousands of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have consistently proffered a cosmopolitan model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the final word full-color consultant to drawing various cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in image novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tough manga types to grasp.