Giorgio Vasari's opinions about the art of painting come through in his praise of fellow artists in the great book that lay behind this frontispiece: he believed that excellence in painting demanded refinement, richness of invention ( invenzione ), expressed through virtuoso technique ( maniera ), and wit and study that appeared in the finished work, all criteria that emphasized the artist's intellect and the patron's sensibility.

The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes ' Leviathan ( book ) | Leviathan

The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes ' Leviathan ( book ) | Leviathan, depicting the Sovereign as a massive body wielding a sword and crozier and composed of many individual people.

Robert Estienne, from a book frontispiece

Queen Alexandra's Christmas gift book, frontispiece shown above, contained royal photographs and was published to raise money for charities.

Petrus Apianus ( 1495 – 1552 ) published the triangle on the frontispiece of his book on business calculations in the 16th century.

The Hays Office had asked Disney to " be certain that the frontispiece of the book mentioned establishes the date in the 1870s ," however, the final film carried no such statement.

In the frontispiece of his book Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium ( Essays on the Generation of Animals ), he made an expression of biogenesis: " omnia ex ovo " ( everything from eggs ).

The Swiss psychologist and entomologist August Forel also believed that food sharing was key to ant society and he used an illustration of it as the frontispiece for his book The Social World of the Ants Compared with that of Man.

There is a drawing of Weidmann as the frontispiece of the book.

The frontispiece of Maerth's book says that after his travels in Asia, South America and Australia he settled in Italy where he lived with his wife and three children on Lake Como, where he was involved in the restoration of Villa Passalacqua.

A scheme for a commemorative statue on this spot had first been promoted in the late 1830s by George Collison, who in 1840 published an engraving as the frontispiece of his book about cemetery design in Europe and America ; and at Abney Park Cemetery in particular.

To the book, Curll added a sexual frontispiece and advertised other " medical " books.

Two retired U. S. Army generals, including former Army Chief-of-Staff Adna R. Chaffee, wrote glowing introductions to the book, which also contained a striking frontispiece photograph of Lea in his lieutenant general ’ s uniform.

In Seymour's Complete Gamester, in 1722, where there is a frontispiece to the book in which a party of rank are represented playing at it, it is described as a game so much in fashion that at its peak by the turn of the eighteenth century, it inspired a unique form of furniture-a three-sided card table.

An allegorical painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools ( painting ), a fragment of a triptych said to be painted by Bosch between 1490 and 1500, may have been influenced by Dürer's frontispiece for the book.

" Sex hygiene " is contrasted with " false modesty " in this frontispiece to an early 20th century book.

Then she copied it out into a stiff-covered exercise book, and painted a coloured frontispiece showing Mrs. Rabbit dosing Peter with camomile tea ".

The painting is dense in symbolism and is indebted to, if not actually satirical of Albrecht Dürer's frontispiece of Sebastian Brant's book of the same name.

The Book frontispiece | frontispiece to Berbiguier's book.

Also on the frontispiece of Kermit's book, War in the Garden of Eden which described his World War I experiences in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq.

Julia Pardoe book frontispiece with her signature at the bottom.

" Musei Wormiani Historia ", the book frontispiece | frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities.

In Insular Gospel Books ( copies of the Gospels produced in Ireland and Britain under Celtic Christianity ), the first verse of Matthew's genealogy of Christ was often treated in a decorative manner, as it began not only a new book of the Bible, but was the first verse in the Gospels.

By the end of the nineteenth century, Arts and Crafts ideals had influenced architecture, painting, sculpture, graphics, illustration, book making and photography, domestic design and the decorative arts, including furniture and woodwork, stained glass, leatherwork, lacemaking, embroidery, rug making and weaving, jewelry and metalwork, enameling and ceramics.

Apart from miniature painting and calligraphy, other arts of the book are decorative illumination, the only type found in Qu ' ran manuscripts, and Islamic book covers, which are often highly decorative in luxury manuscripts, using either the geometric motifs found in illumination, or sometimes figurative images probably drawn for the craftsmen by miniature painters.

* Metallized boPET is used as a mirror-like decorative surface on some book covers, T-shirts, and other flexible cloths.

The poet Ezra Pound characterized it as " Though it is the most beautiful book in the English language, I am not citing it for its decorative purposes but its narrative quality "

The first book includes studies of decorative styles, classical orders, and materials.

After 1900, fashions in, and the economics of, publishing caused book bindings to become less decorative, and it was cheaper for publishers to make the jackets more attractive.

Lydia Chen lists 11 basic types of Chinese decorative knotwork in her first book.

Drawing of Geissler tubes from 1869 French physics book, showing some of the many decorative shapes and colors.

The second covers European art with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts, particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique.

The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book.

He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style, and executed decorative paintings for the town hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906.

* For the soul of Rafael ; with many illustrations from photographs taken expressly for this book, by Harold A. Taylor ; decorative designs by Ralph Fletcher Seymour ; Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.,

Among the collection ’ s strengths are: the British Arts & Crafts movement ; Dutch and Italian variants of the Art Nouveau style ; American industrial design ; objects and publications from world ’ s fairs ; propaganda from the First and Second World Wars and the Spanish Civil War ; New Deal graphic and decorative arts ; avant-garde book design ; and publications and design drawings relating to architecture.

He was also interested in decorative art, design, interior decoration and book illustration.

It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, beautifully painted and heightened with gold.

McGrath was particularly interested in the architectural and decorative use of glass, writing several articles for the Architectural Review in the 1930s, and in 1937 publishing the highly influential book Glass in Architectue and Decoration.

The book could be The Brothers Karamazov, but it would still have the same jacket illustration.

Hence he commissioned a book entitled The Quintessence of Histories to be worked upon by calligraphers, but forbade its illustration by the by-now largely dissolved Society of Miniaturists.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

Cott's 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals introduced ideas such as " maximum disruptive contrast " ( see illustration ).

During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched out most of the ideas that would comprise his major work, The Frieze of Life, first designed for book illustration but later expressed in paintings.

Savonarola argued for art serving as a direct visual illustration of the Bible to educate those unable to read the book.

Image: Gregory the illuminator illustration. jpeg | Gregory the Illuminator illustration in 1898 book « Illustrated Armenia and Armenians »

Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time ; his " single-leaf " woodcuts ( i. e. prints not for book illustration ) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.

A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti | al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.

File: Lucifer3. jpg | Gustave Dore, illustration to Paradise Lost, book IX, 179 – 187

* Intron Depot 1 ( 1992 ) ( science fiction – themed color illustration art book collecting his work from 1981 to 1991 )

* Intron Depot 2: Blades ( 1998 ) ( fantasy-themed color illustration art book featuring female characters with armor and edged weapons )

* Intron Depot 3: Ballistics ( 2003 ) ( military-themed color illustration and CG art book featuring female characters with guns )

* Intron Depot 4: Bullets ( 2004 ) ( color illustration art book collecting his work between 1995 to 1999 )

NCS members work in many branches of the profession, including advertising, animation, newspaper comic strips and syndicated single-panel cartoons, comic books, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons, graphic novels, greeting cards, magazine and book illustration.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

A typical illustration of this distinction is to compare an ancient scroll ( sequential ; all material prior to the data needed must be unrolled ) and the book ( random: can be immediately flipped open to any random page ).

* Swinglehurst, Edmund: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Thunder Bay Press, Canada, 2001, ISBN 1-57145-269-9 ( NOTE: the illustration of The Roses of Heliogabalus in this book is printed the wrong way round!

Briseis and Achilles in a 17th-century book illustration by Wenzel Hollar

His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.