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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying ebook vendors reply to and support improve a turning out to be trouble 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 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 software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer loads by way of bona fide imitation, as by way 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 top and brightest cartoonists. Their stunning strong of artists comprises luminaries reminiscent of 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 consultant to drawing quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the top anime institution and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in picture novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tough manga kinds to grasp.