"The law of harmony in flourishing is the same as in love. As long as everything goes along smoothly, harmony prevails. But as soon as some rival crosses the pathway, especially in a diagonal way, there is likely to be trouble in camp. Therefore see that the lines run nearly parallel or cross nearly at right angles." With the charm of words like these, this pleasantly old-fashioned manual inculcates a fine art that has been virtually lost: the art of ornate pictorial calligraphy, or "flourishing." A good pen, this book, and practice are all you need to create your own magnificent swirls, delicately shaded curves, harmoniously crisscrossing lines, from which birds, rabbits, deer, ribbons, and other images gracefully emerge. Complete instructions lead you from proper positioning and basic exercises to finished flourishes of increasing complexity. Frequent helpful hints encourage calligraphers to cultivate grace, harmony, and symmetry by means of diligence, patience, and perseverance. The approach is quaintly traditional, the results delightful. Over 150 lovely examples of flourishes form in themselves a wonderful collection of ornate pictorial calligraphy. With this unique manual and ample practice, you will help keep alive a glorious decorative art. As this book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive series, its royalty-free illustrations may also be applied to a multitude of graphic arts and design purposes.
Описание: Over thousands of years, man has developed an enormous variety of offensive and defensive weapons for use in battle as well as a vast array of armor and other protective devices. Now artists and illustrators can draw on this extensive archive for superb copyright-free illustrations of vintage arms, armor, and other battlefield paraphernalia. Choose from a rich trove of over 750 illustrations compiled from rare nineteenth-century sources. Included are detailed, high-quality depictions -- arranged chronologically and, to some extent, geographically -- of suits of armor, chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, knives, small arms, and a host of other implements, along with scenes of battle, siege, jousts, soldiers, horses, and more. Especially suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these illustrations reproduce extremely well. They will fill a myriad of needs for battle-related graphic art.
Описание: Over 800 illustrations arranged by subject: horses, riding, hunting, equestrian events, racing, more.
Название: Pictorial Archive of Lace Designs ISBN: 0486261123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486261126 Издательство: Dover Рейтинг: Цена: 1607.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Logic and Reality is a collection of essays by philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists, celebrating the work of the distinguished philosopher Arthur Prior. Topics range from philosophical discussions of the nature of time and of the nature of logic iteself, to descriptions of computer systems that can reason and take account of the fact that they exist in a temporal world.
Автор: D`Allemagne Henry Ren? Название: Antique Playing Card Designs CD-ROM and Book ISBN: 0486996476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486996479 Издательство: Dover Рейтинг: Цена: 1984.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From a rare volume on the history of playing cards: nearly 500 elegant illustrations that once graced European regular and tarot card decks. On display are face cards, musical instruments, fantasy figures, and other motifs -- all ideal for adding a period flair to almost any graphic project. 251 black-and-white illustrations, 245 designs in color.
Автор: Grafton Carol Название: Children: A Pictorial Archive ISBN: 0486417972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486417974 Издательство: Dover Рейтинг: Цена: 1855.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Over 850 versatile illustrations from rare sources depict engaging moppets playing with toys, dolls, and pets; riding bicycles, playing tennis and baseball, reading, sleeping, engaged in activities with other children, and in many other settings and situations. Appealing vignettes of bygone times fo
Описание: Over 700 illustrations: demure damsels, suave suitors; couples embracing, holding hands, courting, plus cupids, hearts, rings, more.
Название: Heck`s Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science ISBN: 0486282910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486282916 Издательство: Dover Рейтинг: Цена: 2848.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Based on J. G. Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, published in German in the nineteenth century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information, covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the thousands of superb steel engravings, comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives ever published in a single work. The present book, one of three separate and independent volumes based on the rare original American edition of 1851, is devoted to nature and science. Over 170 beautifully reproduced plates contain thousands of illustrations depicting an extraordinary array of subjects: mathematical and geometrical problems; surveying instruments, astronomical maps, and instruments; planetary systems according to Ptolemy, the Egyptians, Copernicus, and others; positions of the planets; botanical illutrations of scores of plants -- including seed pods, fruits, and other parts; physical and meteorological illustration demonstrating many laws and principles; numerous types of physical and chemical apparatus; animals, minerals, fossils, geological formations; human anatomy; and many other images. A descriptive table of contents is keyed to numbered illustrations on each plate. Artists, illustrators, and anyone in need of precisely rendered, royalty-free science or nature illustrations will welcome this practically inexhaustible wealth of immediately usable art.
Описание: Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers fascinating insights into ordinary people`s perceptions of time and time-keeping instruments.
Описание: Readers who enjoyed and valued such Dover reprints as the 1895 Montgomery Ward Catalog will delight in this illustrated archive of Victonan era house furnishings kitchenware, and hardware Over 2.000 illustrations - reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from priceless antique trade catalogs - fill the pages of this comprehensive guide. On display are andirons, apple corers and ash sifters, balance scales, beef shavers, cowbells, berry spoons, brass coal hods, housemaid's buckets, buttonhole cutters, cider mills, coffee roasters, grindstones, hay rakes, inkwells, oil-burning lamps, sausage stuffers, seed strippers, spittoons, string holders, washboards, clothes wringers, and hundreds of other items. Captions provide helpful product descriptions, including such information as size, weight and cost. Historians, antique dealers, collectors, and lovers of Victoriana will find this volume an indispensable reference: artists, desigrers, and craftspeople will be delighted with the enormous selection of copyright-free images - many unavailable elsewhere.
