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Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Hans Holbein the Younger. Authentic portraits are ideal, but none exist for the vast majority of historic personalities. Where they exist, authentic portraits, i.e. artistic depictions of a person that purport to provide an individualized, authentic representation of that person's unique looks, based either directly or indirectly on a witness's first-hand ...
This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the ...
Portrait paintings of "men of culture" (wen ren hua) at that period reflects this dilemma. For instance, the Portrait of Yang Qian depicted him standing in a bamboo forest. While the bamboo symbolizes his moral rightness, the half-enclosed and half-opened space in the background alludes to his potential of choosing between reclusion and serve ...
Although many of the most famous depictions of the Queen are traditional and regal portraits, American pop artist Andy Warhol used his iconic style of visual art to create one of the more ...
It could be argued that in literature any portrait is a discreet assembly of facts, anecdotes, and author's insights. Plutarch's Parallel Lives, written in the 2nd century AD, offer a prime example of historical literary portraits, as a source of information about the individuals and their times. Painted portraits can also play a role in ...
Copy in oils of the Whitehall Mural, commissioned by Charles II, 1667. Portrait of Henry VIII is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger depicting Henry VIII.It is one of the most iconic images of Henry VIII and is one of the most famous portraits of any English or British monarch.
The Chesterfield portrait, attributed to Borsseler, and the earliest known aggrandized image of Shakespeare. In the decades after Shakespeare's death a number of portraits were made based on existing images or living memory. The most important of these are: The Soest portrait, probably painted by Gerard Soest.
The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Saunderstown, Rhode Island Portrait of William Hunter's spaniels. Stuart was born on December 3, 1755, in Saunderstown, a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was baptized at Old Narragansett Church on April 11, 1756.