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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying ebook proprietors reply to and aid boost a growing to be obstacle 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 artwork critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continually to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer rather a lot through bona fide imitation, as by way of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up via 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 outstanding reliable of artists contains luminaries equivalent to 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 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 a number of lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the major anime tuition 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 some of the most tough manga kinds to grasp.