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

This ebook investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying publication vendors reply to and aid increase a starting to be challenge 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 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 regularly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer quite a bit via bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up through 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 wonderful sturdy of artists contains luminaries corresponding to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds and hundreds of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have constantly 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 advisor to drawing various cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility 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 image novels, games, and films—and probably the most tough manga kinds to grasp.