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Portraiture
Portraiture Por"trai*ture, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
Portraiture
Portraiture Por"trai*ture (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that
which is copied from some example or model.
For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture
of his. --Shak.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon.
2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
Meaning of Portraiture from wikipedia
- homes. The
skulls denote some of the
earliest sculptural examples of
portraiture in the
history of art. Most
early representations that are
clearly intended...
- Self-
portraiture, or
Autoportraiture is the
field of art
theory and
history that
studies the history,
means of production, circulation, reception, forms...
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Roman portraiture was one of the most
significant periods in the
development of
portrait art. The
surviving portraits of
individuals are
almost entirely...
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environmental portraiture, and is used to
convey further information about the
person being photographed.
Where it is
common in
studio portraiture and even...
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Natural light portraiture Portrait photography, or
portraiture, is a type of
photography aimed toward capturing the
personality of a
person or
group of...
- Just
Cause (1995), The
Locusts (1997), and The Love
Letter (1999). Her
portraiture work has been
shown in the
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and...
- ****enistic
portraiture was one of the most
innovative features of ****enistic art.
Spurred on by an
increased interest in realism, ****enistic sculptors...
- and was
renamed The
Donald W.
Reynolds Center for
American Art and
Portraiture in
honor of a gift from the
Donald W.
Reynolds Foundation. The building...
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Portraiture in
ancient Egypt forms a
conceptual attempt to
portray "the
subject from its own
perspective rather than the
viewpoint of the
artist ... to...
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September 2003, aged 92. The
prestigious Olive Cotton Award for
Photographic Portraiture was set up in her
honour and
funded by Cotton's
family and held at the...
