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 photos of praying booklet proprietors reply to and support enhance a starting to be quandary 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 nice Victorian paintings 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 appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer a lot via bona fide imitation, as through 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 remarkable good of artists comprises luminaries reminiscent of 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 consistently 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 consultant to drawing quite a few lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the best anime university 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 the most tricky manga types to grasp.