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The figure of Ruan Xian who was famous for musical talents according to the Book of Jin plays a flute in the portrait. Gu Kaizhi, one of the most famous artists of the Eastern Jin dynasty, instructed how to reflect the sitter's characteristics through accurate portray of the physical features in his book On Painting. He also stressed the ...
Category: Portraits by artist. 10 languages. Azərbaycanca; ... Paintings by Charles Lock Eastlake (5 P) Portraits by El Greco (18 P) Portraits by Jan van Eyck (14 P) G.
The artist's work, then mostly consisting of landscape paintings, was not selling well. He returned to Sudbury in 1748–1749 and concentrated on painting portraits. [ 8 ] While still in Suffolk, Gainsborough painted a portrait of The Rev. John Chafy Playing the Violoncello in a Landscape (c. 1750–1752; Tate Gallery, London).
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; [1] 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
Portraits — primarily in portrait paintings. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ... Portraits by Flemish artists (2 C ...
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen.
Ducreux also made several well-known self-portraits in the 1780s and 1790s, including one in 1783 in which he painted himself in the middle of a large yawn (the Getty Center, Los Angeles). [5] In another, Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur (c. 1793, Louvre), the artist guffaws and points at the viewer. [6] Joseph Ducreux - Le ...
Portraits by artist (67 C) M. Portrait miniaturists (6 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Portrait painters" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total.