Definition of Portraits. Meaning of Portraits. Synonyms of Portraits

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Definition of Portraits

Portrait
Portrait Por"trait, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray.] 1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J. Reynolds. Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness. 2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.
Portrait
Portrait Por"trait, v. t. To portray; to draw. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Meaning of Portraits from wikipedia

- 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...
- Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...
- National Portrait Gallery. The gallery has collected presidential portraits since its creation in 1962, and began commissioning their portraits in 1994...
- effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions,...
- 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...
- is of the playwright. Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds...
- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (French: François Truffaut: Portraits volés) is a 1993 French do****entary film directed by Michel Pascal and Serge...
- BushCenter: Portraits of Courage - Experience the Exhibit Isabella Biedenharn (March 2, 2017). "See President George W. Bush's paintings from Portraits of Courage"...
- 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...
- medieval portraits were donor portraits, initially mostly of popes in Roman mosaics, and illuminated m****cripts, an example being a self-portrait by the...