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

This ebook investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying publication vendors reply to and support enhance a growing to be predicament 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 artwork guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching better half to the good Victorian artwork 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 appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not loads by way of bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules 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 top and brightest cartoonists. Their astonishing good of artists comprises luminaries corresponding to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and enormous quantities of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have constantly 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 advisor to drawing quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the top anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in picture novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tough manga types to grasp.