Illustration Art
DECEMBER 30, 2006
There's obviously no such thing as the single greatest drawing in the history of the world. It would be foolish to think about rating art that way. However, if there was such a drawing.87.42% of the world would probably agree with me that it's this one by Michelangelo. It's a preparatory drawing for his fresco of the Libyan Sibyl on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Illustration Art
DECEMBER 19, 2006
100 years ago, women were thrilled by Redbook magazine's romantic stories about dark and mysterious men, exotic perils from the orient, women in danger, sublimated passions and heaving bosoms. The stories were illustrated by marvelous pictures like these. Often the heroine watched as powerful men struggled over her virtue, or were reduced to helpless tears by their love for her.
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