Dés le début de l'histoire les artistes on dépeint les créatures bizarres et surnaturelles qui résident dans l'obscurité de notre imagination collective. Le Moyen âge fut un moment fort de cette pratique artistique. Ce remarquable livre à colorier vous invite à découvrir de monde mythique plein de monstres. Se cachant dans ce bestiare fabuleux sont quelques quarante-cinq images de créatures extraordinaries qui n'attendent que vos crayons de couleur pour être ranimées. Ce livre contient des images détaillées de dragons, chiens ailés, démons, lions, griffons, licornes, aigles, et d'autres bêtes variées. Parmi les sources de ces images merveilleusement rendues on trouve le livre de Kells, les ouvrages de Dürer, Léonard de Vinci, des artistes vikings et les cathédrals de Notre Dame de Paris et de Rouen et d'autres encore. Ce livre plein de merveilles est destiné aux amateurs de livres à colorier ainsi qu'à ceux qui adorent les monstres et bêtes mythiques.

Dragons, winged dogs, demons, lions, griffins, a bull, unicorn, eagle, various other grotesques from The Book of Kells, medieval architecture, other sources. Detailed black-and-white illustrations of 45 mythical animals. Captions.

Two complete projects, fascinating history and myth, and 26 additional full page patterns for creating functional and decorative gargoyles from wood. Learn to carve a traditional water-spouting gargoyle and classic grotesque with step-by-step instructions. Includes 10 additional patterns for mythical creatures incorporated into architectural elements, like a working doorknocker.

Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.

Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.