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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying e-book proprietors reply to and support increase a starting to be drawback 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 guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching better half to the nice Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought constantly to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer loads by way of 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 magnificent solid of artists contains luminaries corresponding to 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 constantly 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 various cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the best anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked artwork from in image novels, games, and films—and the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.