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 e-book vendors reply to and support strengthen a becoming main issue 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 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 continually to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer loads by way of bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up by way 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 staggering sturdy of artists comprises luminaries corresponding to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds and hundreds of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continuously proffered a worldly model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the last word full-color consultant to drawing numerous lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the top anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photo novels, games, and films—and some of the most tricky manga types to grasp.