MIDDLE-EARTH: Visions of a Modern Myth

MIDDLE-EARTH: Visions of a Modern Myth

This are new, and pristine, first edition copies from the 2010 printing with Underwood Books, Donato's first compilation on his Middle-earth imagery. Now a valued collector's item.

88 pages, full color hard cover with dust jacket. 9" x 12"
Signed by Donato on the title page and embossed with the Sigil of the Kings of Gondor.

Bookmarks and Tri-fold Keepsake included

"He is among the most accomplished illustrators in the industry, to me, and his varied images show a keen and seemingly inexhaustible curiosity and delight in compositional and image possibilities within the perimeters of his signature high realism style. I know the excitement that drives him. "

- Ted Nasmith

"There's more to Donato Giancola's art than just a pretty face. Underneath the incredibly meticulous surface of his paintings is concealed a love of perspective and form, an intimate understanding of the human body, a historian's knowledge of costume and armour, an infallible sense of implicit narrative, visual storytelling and mythical history. It's just that you're so rapt gazing at all the mind-blowingly pretty bits that you tend to miss it. Look again. There's a lot more to see."

-John Howe

I cannot express to you how excited I am about this book. Ever since my brother Michael handed me 'The Hobbit' to read when I was a teenager, I have dreamed of the chance to share my passions about J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth with the world in a manner I felt conveyed the weight of the burden placed on The Fellowship. To those ends, I have embraced the narrative and humanistic aesthetics of the European Rennaisance to interprete 'The Lord of the Rings'. As many of you can guess, the works of John Howe, Ted Nasmith, David Wenzel, Ian Miller and Alan Lee, among many others, helped inspire my own pursuits of Tolkien worlds in the grandest manner possible. I hope you enjoy my explorations.

- Donato Giancola