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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying ebook vendors reply to and aid increase a transforming into 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 paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching significant other to the good 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 loads by way of bona fide imitation, as through reviving within the brain these principles 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 amazing solid of artists comprises luminaries comparable to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of thousands of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continuously proffered a cosmopolitan 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 quite a few lovable 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 paintings from in photo novels, games, and films—and some of the most tough manga types to grasp.