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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying e-book vendors reply to and support enhance a turning out to be obstacle 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 artwork guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the nice Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought continuously 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 through bona fide imitation, as by means of 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their surprising solid of artists comprises luminaries similar to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000s of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have regularly proffered a worldly 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 lovable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the best anime college and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in photograph novels, games, and films—and probably the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.