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

This ebook investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying booklet vendors reply to and aid enhance a growing to be situation 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 artwork guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching significant other to the good Victorian paintings 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 device, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not a lot via bona fide imitation, as through reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up via 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 surprising sturdy of artists comprises luminaries equivalent 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 constantly 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 advisor to drawing numerous lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the top anime college and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large 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.