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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 sculptures, covering a period of almost five centuries. Roman portraiture is characterised by unusual realism and the desire to convey images of nature in the high quality style often seen in ...
Ancient sources indicate that panel painting rather than wall painting (i.e., painting on wood or other mobile surfaces) was held in high regard, but very few ancient panel paintings survive. One of the few examples besides the mummy portraits is the Severan Tondo , also from Egypt (around 200), which, like the mummy portraits, is believed to ...
Portrait of a Man (Parmigianino) Portrait of a Man with a Glove; Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves; Man in a Hammock; Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat; Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit; Man on a Balcony; Man with a Beer Jug; Man with a Glove; A Man with a Quilted Sleeve; Portrait of a Man with a Roman Medal; Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo; Man ...
Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and private persons, or they may be inspired by admiration or affection for the subject.
Portrait of Benedetto Varchi or Portrait of a Man, a c. 1540 oil painting by Titian; Portrait of a Man, a c. 1545 oil on canvas painting; Laughing Cavalier or Portrait of a Man, a 1624 painting by Frans Hals; Portrait of a Man, a c. 1630–1635 painting by Diego Velázquez; Portrait of a Man (Rembrandt, New York), a c. 1657 portrait painting ...
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
The Lucan portrait of Leonardo da Vinci is a late 15th- or early 16th-century portrait of a man. The picture was discovered in 2008 in a cupboard of a private house in Italy. It composition, it strongly resembles a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci held by the Uffizi Gallery and is generally believed to be a 19th century forgery.
At the turn of the 20th century Henri Matisse copied the painting, and Paul Cézanne exclaimed of Raphael's portrait: "How well rounded the forehead is, with all the distinct planes. How well balanced the patches in the unity of the whole...." [7] Now in the Louvre, the painting was acquired by Louis XIV in 1661 from the heirs of Cardinal ...