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

This booklet investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of past due medieval devotional books essentially from France and England. those mirror-like photos of praying booklet proprietors reply to and aid advance a growing to be 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 guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching better half to the good Victorian artwork 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 appreciate, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not rather a lot by way of bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these principles 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 most sensible and brightest cartoonists. Their miraculous sturdy of artists comprises luminaries akin to greenback Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and 1000's of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have regularly proffered a cosmopolitan 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 lovely chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing unit Studio, the major anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and large and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in picture novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tricky manga types to grasp.