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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying ebook proprietors reply to and support strengthen a starting to be drawback with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterised the spiritual 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 consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not quite a bit by way of bona fide imitation, as by way of reviving within the brain these rules 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 stunning reliable of artists comprises luminaries resembling greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of 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 last word full-color consultant to drawing a number of cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime college 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 probably the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.