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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 ...
In 1964, Machin was chosen to design a new image of Queen Elizabeth II for decimal coinage. The portrait went on to be used on British postage stamps, with the design first being used on the 4d ...
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 ...
Portraits were another favorite subject for Logan. Twelve prints of famous Americans were gathered into a book with short biographies, [21] and later reissued as a calendar by the Consolidated Printing Company. [22] Famous printers and printmakers throughout history were another focus of Logan's portraiture.
Portrait of the Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, 1238 AD. During the Song dynasty, Emperor Gaozong commissioned Portraits of Confucius and Seventy-two Disciples (sheng xian tu) on blank ground with his handwritten inscription. The figures were portrayed in vivid lines, animated gestures, and the facial expressions were rendered a narrative quality.
Featuring historic portraits by Cecil Beaton and works by Andy Warhol, the display chronicles the evolution of royal portrait photography from the 1920s until the coronation of the King in 2023 ...
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
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.