these count as portraits. Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people who were not rulers are the Greco-Roman funeral portraits that survived...
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Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...
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least left drawings of themselves. Printed portraits of artists had a market, and many were self-portraits. They were also sometimes given as gifts to...
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effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions,...
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (French: François Truffaut: Portraits volés) is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Michel Pascal and Serge...
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is of the playwright. Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds...
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medieval portraits were donor portraits, initially mostly of popes in Roman mosaics, and illuminated manuscripts, an example being a self-portrait by the...
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Portraiture of Elizabeth I (redirect from Portraits of Elizabeth I)
of the portrait miniature. There is documentation that she created numerous portraits of Elizabeth I, both individual portraits and portraits of the sovereign...
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National Portrait Gallery. The gallery has collected presidential portraits since its creation in 1962, and began commissioning their portraits in 1994...
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The first portrait gallery in the United States was Charles Willson Peale's American Pantheon, also known as Peale's Collection of Portraits of American...
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Twelve Monograms (Fabergé egg) (redirect from Alexander III Portraits (Fabergé egg))
The Twelve Monograms egg, also known as the Alexander III Portraits egg, is an Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl...
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Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was...
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represent him, and more than 60 portraits purporting to be of Shakespeare were offered for sale to the National Portrait Gallery within four decades of...
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Tomorrow album), 2009 Portraits (For Today album), 2009 Portraits (Max Raptor album), 2011 Portraits (Greyson Chance album), 2019 A Portrait (Voice of the Beehive...
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BushCenter: Portraits of Courage - Experience the Exhibit Isabella Biedenharn (March 2, 2017). "See President George W. Bush's paintings from Portraits of Courage"...
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Rembrandt (category Dutch portrait painters)
works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes...
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The portraits of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) include self-portraits, portraits of him by other artists, and photographs—one of which is dubious—of the...
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Silhouette (redirect from Profile portraits)
purpose, as well as being decorative. 18th century profile portraits For the depiction of portraits, the profile image has marked advantage over a full-face...
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Self-released) Portraits of Past/Bleed split 7-inch (1994, Ebullition) Cypress Dust Witch CD/12" (2009, Excursions Into The Abyss) Compilation albums Portraits of...
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The Portrait may refer to: The Portrait (Magritte), a 1935 painting by René Magritte "The Portrait" (short story), an 1835 short story by Nikolai Gogol...
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Pendant (art) (redirect from Pendant portraits)
each other and are displayed in close proximity. For example, pairs of portraits of married couples are very common, as are symmetrically arranged statues...
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dozens of self-portraits by Rembrandt were an important part of his oeuvre. Rembrandt created approaching one hundred self-portraits including over forty...
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at least twenty five portraits of ambassadors from their various countries. The copy from the Song dynasty has twelve portraits and descriptions of thirteen...
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initial conditions is represented by a different point or curve. Phase portraits are an invaluable tool in studying dynamical systems. They consist of...
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signature, examples being Man Ray's solarised portrait of Miller taken in Paris circa 1930, and Miller's portraits of fellow surrealist Meret Oppenheim (1930)...
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Portraits, Inc., is the world's oldest and largest commissioned portrait company. Founded in New York City in 1942, Portraits, Inc. specializes in commissioned...
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has made exhibitions of selections of self-portraits, including a traveling exhibition of self-portraits by women in 2011. Autoritratte: Artiste ‘di...
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practice was adopted from Stalin portraits in the Soviet Union and portraits of Mao Zedong in China. Displaying a portrait of Kim Il Sung in every house...
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family. Donor portrait usually refers to the portrait or portraits of donors alone, as a section of a larger work, whereas votive portrait may often refer...
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and chest. The length of the hair and beard is uncommon in Renaissance portraits and suggests, as now, a person of sagacity. The face has a somewhat aquiline...
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