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 images of praying publication proprietors reply to and support boost a becoming crisis 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 paintings guide is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the good Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each appreciate, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not lots via bona fide imitation, as via reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up through 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 fabulous solid of artists contains luminaries similar to greenback 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 always 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 advisor to drawing a number of lovable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime university and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in photograph novels, games, and films—and probably the most tough manga types to grasp.