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

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photographs of praying e-book vendors reply to and aid strengthen a growing to be difficulty 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 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 admire, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer lots 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 amazing reliable of artists comprises luminaries reminiscent of dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000s of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have consistently 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 numerous cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the top anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in image novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tricky manga types to grasp.