Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the...
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Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is an oil painting on...
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of the best-known portraits in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled Mona Lisa, which is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini...
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Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, also known as Autoritratto in veste di Pittura or simply La Pittura, was painted by the Italian Baroque artist...
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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French...
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painted a range of self-portraits. In The Prodigal Son in the Tavern (c1637), one of the earliest self-portraits with family, the painting probably includes...
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Hoover's request, this painting replaced the original, and currently stands as the official White House portrait. The Johansen painting now resides at the...
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the hierarchy. Most paintings were relatively small – the only common type of really large paintings were group portraits. Painting directly onto walls...
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"under the spell" of Böcklin's self-portrait when writing the scherzo movement of his Fourth Symphony. List of paintings by Arnold Böcklin "Selbstbildnis...
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Ottoman Empire, for a book or album Mughal painting Deccan painting Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting Miniature figure (gaming), used in wargaming...
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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait...
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A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques...
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portrait of Shakespeare[citation needed] used in the First Folio in 1623. It is named after the 3rd Duke of Chandos, who formerly owned the painting....
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to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of...
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Mona Lisa (redirect from La Gioconda (painting))
[ˈmɔnna ˈliːza]; French: la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece...
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The Athenaeum Portrait, also known as The Athenaeum, is an unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart of United States President George Washington. Created...
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Portrait of a Young Man is a painting by Raphael. It is often thought to be a self-portrait. During the Second World War the painting was stolen by the...
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it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. The six-by-five-foot (1.8 by 1.5 m) oil-on-linen painting shows Obama, rendered in...
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed...
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Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight) is a panel painting by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted early in 1500, just before...
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Albert Edelfelt (section Portrait painting)
by Edelfelt for his portrait of Louis Pasteur Final Pasteur's Portrait in his laboratory (1885) Edelfelt began by painting portraits of his family and relatives...
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The Portrait of Winston Churchill was a painting by English artist Graham Sutherland that depicted the British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, created...
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Portrait of Madeleine, also known as Portrait of a Black Woman (French: Portrait d'une femme noire or Portrait d'une negresse), is an oil-on-canvas painting...
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Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Spanish: Retrato de Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso in the Analytical Cubism...
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Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France. The painting is now at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This self-portrait was one of about 32 produced over a 10-year...
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Portrait of Queen Charlotte is a 1789 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz....
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Still life (redirect from Still-Life Painting)
painting. As Pliny the Elder recorded in ancient Roman times, Greek artists centuries earlier were already advanced in the arts of portrait painting,...
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14, 2022, an almost certainly authentic self-portrait of van Gogh was uncovered under his 1885 painting "Head of a peasant woman". Lesley Stevenson, a...
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The Portrait of a Musician is an unfinished painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1483–1487. Produced while Leonardo...
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Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire is a portrait painting by the English painter Thomas Gainsborough of the political hostess Georgiana Cavendish...
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