Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden the pergola became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola...

If you have already experienced The first 2 volumes, "The Amazing World of Horses" and "The Magical World of Horses," you will be captivated by "The Enchanted World of Horses." It's what every horse lover would want in an adult coloring book.

Enjoy the uniqueness of each breed with it's own individual beauty. This book contains 44 images for you to bring to life with your creativity, whether you want to unwind or do something creative while commuting.

This third volume for horse lovers has some new styles with new added breeds including heavy horses as well as some of the same styles...

Flowers are one of the most common and beloved subjects for artists. And for new artists, it's almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals, stem, voila The painting exercises and the process shown in this book have a loose, free, contemporary style--one that is very popular with painters and is widely seen in galleries, in shops, and even on clothing and home design goods. It's not intimidating, and yet the paintings are colorful, immediate, and joyful and speak to the artist's desire to play, be loose, and to create freely.

Lynn Whipple...

An alpaca creative coloring book for adults relaxation was based on the picture book 'Alpaca Coat for Ruby'.

With our creative adult coloring book you can turn your coloring into works of art. There are less shapes within the main shapes, which encourages the blending of colors, making you the artist and results in an atmosphere of relaxation. The illustrations are on single pages so each picture is a separate masterpiece.

The illustrations in our coloring book were drawn from a professional artist, Mariia from FleurArt

Feel free to think outside of the box or lines,...

In this new installment of Lee J. Ames's beloved Draw 50 series, readers will find easy-to-follow, step-by-step visual lessons on sketching and rendering all kinds of sea and ocean-dwelling creatures. Animals and plants from in and near the water featured in the book include clownfish, whale sharks, sea otters, dolphins, turtles and more.

Floral Masterpieces
The finest floral treasures of Pierre-Joseph Redoute

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon's Josephine, he was dubbed "the Raphael of flowers," and is regarded to this day as a master...

The poet Jean de La Fontaine famously dedicated his Fables in 1668 to Louis XIV's son, declaring in verse that "animals I choose/to proffer lessons that we all might use." Less well known is that La Fontaine's Fables appeared within a peak moment of cultural production about animals, the work of a small, but privileged coterie of writers, artists, philosophers, physicians, and scientists. In this highly original study, historian Peter Sahlins argues that 1668 witnessed the shift of an entire way of thinking about the relationship of animals and humans -- what Sahlins calls...

Inspired by childhood fairytales where enchanted forests come alive and take your imagination to a world of wonder and curiosity, The Grumpy Mushroom is the perfect escape from daily stressors
Illustrated for the adult colorer with detail, sophistication, and botanical accuracy yet sprinkled with enchanted magic
Although appropriate for the colorer of any age this book is truly designed for the sophisticate yet imaginative adult
The Grumpy Mushroom is a whimsical yet sophisticated coloring book for adults of all ages 26 hand drawn illustrations provide a perfect...

Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction--these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to--and understand the sources of--the plight of honeybees.

Through a lyrical combination of creative nonfiction and visual imagery, Where Honeybees Thrive tells the stories of the beekeepers, farmers, artists, entomologists, ecologists, and other advocates working to stem the damage...

Capitalizing on the current Downton Abbey-inspired...