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 ebook proprietors reply to and aid enhance a transforming into 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 paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse 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 rather a lot via 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 magnificent sturdy of artists comprises luminaries reminiscent of greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and thousands 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 final word full-color advisor to drawing quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the major anime university and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in image novels, games, and films—and some of the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.