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  2. Category:Portraits of men - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Lord Mansfield; Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni; Marquis de Lafayette (Morse) Portrait of Ugolino Martelli; Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa; Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange; Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici; Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child; The Melancholic Man; Portrait of a Man (Hans Memling) The Merry Drinker ...

  3. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    The earliest surviving photograph depicting people: a person working as a shoeshiner and an individual having his shoes shined. [5] [s 1] [s 3] Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man [b] 18 October 1840 Hippolyte Bayard: Paris, France [6] Direct Positive

  4. Roman portraiture - Wikipedia

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    Veristic portrait bust of an old man, head covered (capite velato), either a priest or paterfamilias (marble, mid-1st century BC) The origin of the realism of Roman portraits may be, according to some scholars, because they evolved from wax death masks. These death masks were taken from bodies and kept in a home altar.

  5. Portraits by Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia

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    The portrait was executed in the first days of September 1888, a few days before Boch's departure. In the first version of Van Gogh's Bedroom, executed in October 1888, this portrait is shown hanging to the left of the portrait of Paul-Eugène Milliet. Arranged this way, both portraits may have formed part of the Décoration for the Yellow House.

  6. Folk art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Edward Hicks Painting the Peaceable Kingdom by Thomas Hicks, depicting Edward Hicks painting one of his most noted artworks. [3]In colonial America, folk art grew out of artisanal craftsmanship in communities that allowed commonly trained people to individually express themselves, distinct from the high art tradition that dominated Europe, which was less accessible and generally less relevant ...

  7. Wikipedia:Historical portraits and pictures - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Category:Paintings of men - Wikipedia

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    B. Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach; The Bagpipe Lesson; The Banjo Lesson; The Bar (painting) Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme) Berlin Street Scene; Between Rounds

  9. Portrait - Wikipedia

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    Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings. Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits.