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  2. Portrait painting - Wikipedia

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    In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art, "The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out…Indolence has destroyed the arts." [21] [22] These full-face portraits from Roman Egypt are fortunate exceptions. They present a somewhat ...

  3. First Lady Michelle Obama (painting) - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, for her portrait for the National Portrait Gallery, former First Lady Michelle Obama chose the artist Amy Sherald, who like Obama is African American. [1] Both the President and First Lady met with Sherald as a candidate to paint their respective portraits, but Sherald and Michelle Obama had an immediate connection.

  4. Self-portrait - Wikipedia

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    A painting by Parmigianino in 1524 Self-portrait in a mirror, demonstrates the phenomenon. Mirrors permit surprising compositions like the Triple self-portrait by Johannes Gumpp (1646), or more recently that of Salvador Dalí shown from the back painting his wife, Gala (1972–73). This use of the mirror often results in right-handed painters ...

  5. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Portrait of Louis XV of France (1748), pastel. Pastel is a painting medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. [45] The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.

  6. Portraits by Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a painting Vincent van Gogh made in 1888 of his mother, Anna Carbentus van Gogh, from a black-and-white photograph. In September 1888, Van Gogh, answering to a letter of his sister Wil who had told him of a recent photograph of their mother, asked for a print. [ 29 ]

  7. Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar - Wikipedia

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    Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar is a 1659 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, one of over 40 self-portraits by Rembrandt.It has been noted as a self-portrayal of subtle and somber qualities, a work in which may be seen "the stresses and strains of a life compounded of creative triumphs and personal and financial reverses".

  8. Portrait - Wikipedia

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    Painted portraits can also play a role in literature. These can be fictional portraits, such as that of Dorian Gray in the eponymous 1891 novel by Oscar Wilde. But sometimes also real portraits feature in literature. An example is the portrait of Richard III that plays a role in Josephine Tey's 1951 novel The Daughter of Time. [9]

  9. Self-Portrait with Two Circles - Wikipedia

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    Self-Portrait with Two Circles is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, painted c. 1665 –1669, [1] one of over 40 painted self-portraits by Rembrandt. [2] In the portrait, Rembrandt holds his palette, brushes, and maulstick. The painting is notable for its monumentality and the enigmatic background consisting of a shallow ...

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