Human figures Depicted in Art

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The trials of criminals who disgust and fascinate the world in equal measure continue to be depicted primarily not at the push of a button but ...

With a smart tin containing two drawing pencils and 10 coloured pencils, you have everything you need to begin drawing fantastic portraits

This twelve-month planner features portraits of this groundbreaking woman by contemporary artists paired with the musings of writer Angi Sullins. T...

The calendar features twelve beguiling portraits of this groundbreaking woman by contemporary artists paired with the musings of writer Angi Sullin...

Great drawings in just five minutes! Perfect for beginners! Whether you are sketching on the move or only have a few minutes to spare whilst stand...

Part call to action and part illuminating tributes, the Women Who Rock Our World 2025 Wall Calendar showcases extraordinary womensuch as Madeleine ...

Collecting 100 full-color pages, Black Tights features some of the best artists in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, the artists often...

Cabinet cards were Americas main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6½ x 4¼...

Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, crit...

Julia Kay's Portrait Party is an international collaborative project in which artists all over the world make portraits of each other and share the...

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object o...

Appropriate for all beginning and intermediate courses in Art, Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, or Life Drawing.   Providing a concise but compre...

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (19091992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurativ...

A radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term neoclassicism has come to imply discipline, o...

This engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique perspective of one of ...

A vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864) Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars and national bankruptc...

Ellen Akimotos (*1988) painting is figurative, contemporary, and captivating in its inventiveness. As Wolfgang Ullrich notes, she does not simply c...

Frans Hals is often called 'the master of the laugh'. More than any other painter in the Golden Age he was able to bring a vitality to his portrait...

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Eliza...