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 photographs of praying e-book vendors reply to and aid advance a becoming quandary 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 better half to the nice Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought regularly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each recognize, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not a lot by means of bona fide imitation, as via reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up by means of a contemplation of Nature .

Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

For over 50 years, Playboy journal has showcased the world's most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their awesome sturdy of artists comprises luminaries equivalent to greenback 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 always 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 quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the top anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in picture novels, games, and films—and some of the most tough manga types to grasp.