Publisher's description:
Richly detailed treasury of 424 black-and-white, royalty-free designs and illustrations, presented in diverse styles and sizes, depict human figures and walled cities, fanciful beasts and creatures of the sea and air, turreted castles, heraldic designs, knights in armor, letters of the alphabet enhanced with floral and foliated motifs, and much more.
Dover Original.
From the back cover:
This outstanding CD-ROM and book set represents a rich treasury of medieval and Gothic ornaments. Hundreds of designs and illustrations, presented in a diversity of styles and sizes, include immediately usable cuts of human figures and walled cities, fanciful beasts and creatures of the sea and air, turreted castles, heraldic designs, knights in armor, Ietters of the alphabet enhanced with floral and foliated motifs, and much more. Included in the set are:
- One CD-ROM containing over 400 highquality, permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF)
- A largeformat 64-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly for easy reference
Also included on the CD-ROM is Dover Design Manager, a simple graphics editing program for Windows that will allow you to view, print, crop, and rotate the images.
Perfect for adding an authentic medieval flavor to countless graphic and print projects, this handy set offers artists, illustrators, and designers a virtually inexhaustible sourcebook of authentic art and ornamentation from the Middle Ages.
Original Dover (2001) publication.