PORTRAIT

PORTRAIT: presentation of specified person showing his or her individual features of appearance and also of character. Similarity between a model and the portrait is the essential of a portrait. Depending on the range of view of the model there are some kinds of portraits distinguished: a portrait of head, a bust, a portrait from head to knees and a portrait of whole person. A model can be shown head-on, in a profile and in so-called 3/4 (which means a face of the model is turned on one side).


Full view (18,5Kb) Portrait of a boy
IInd century AD 		Full view (23,7Kb) PETRUS CHRISTUS
Portrait of a young woman
around 1446


Full view (23,4Kb) PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
Portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro
1472(4) 		Full view (28,5Kb) DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO
Old man with the grandson
around 1480


Full view (24,2Kb) LEONARDO DA VINCI
Lady with the Ermine
around 1483 		Full view (34,2Kb) ALBRECHT DÜRER
Portrait of the mother
1514


Full view (37,7Kb) HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER
Henry the VIIIth
1540 		Full view (31,8Kb) GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO
Emperor Rudolf the IInd as Vertumnus
around 1591


Full view (33,4Kb) FRANS HALS
The cheerful drunk
around 1629 		Full view (32,0Kb) DIEGO VELÁZQUES
The pope Innocent the Xth
1650


Full view (33,6Kb)  
Portrait on the coffin
1686 		Full view (36,7Kb) HYACINTHE RIGAUD
Portrait of Louis the XIVth
1701


Full view (22,1Kb) JEAN-AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES
Louis-François Bertin
1832 		Full view (31,0Kb) HENRI MATISSE
Portrait with the green stroke
1905


Full view (27,5Kb) SALVADOR DALI
Portrait of Mae West
1934 - 1936 		Full view (46,8Kb) ANDY WARHOL
Portrait of Marylin Monroe
1962



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