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

This e-book investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying ebook proprietors reply to and aid improve a turning out to be predicament 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 spouse 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 recognize, because the software, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer a lot by means of bona fide imitation, as via 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 astonishing solid of artists contains luminaries corresponding to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and countless numbers of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have always 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 consultant to drawing a number of lovable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the prime anime university and studio. With their outsized heads, obese cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in picture novels, games, and films—and the most tricky manga kinds to grasp.