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. ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity. It stars Michael Rooker in his debut as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis, a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's …

The Chandos portrait is the most famous of the portraits that are believed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Painted between 1600 and 1610, it may have served as the basis for the engraved portrait of Shakespeare used in the First Folio in 1623. It is named after the Dukes of Chandos, who formerly owned the painting.The portrait was given to the National Portrait …

Le portrait en miniature est l'art de reproduire sur une petite surface le portrait d'une personne. Il peut orner des objets personnels (bague, bracelet, tabatière, carnet de bal, etc.) et utiliser différents supports et techniques de peinture et de dessin. La miniature s'offre en témoignage d'amour ou d'amitié. Historiquement, les peintres en miniature ont joué sur la définition ...

Historique et utilisation. Il n'y a pas de portrait officiel du premier président de la République française (1848-1852), Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.C'est un portrait réalisé par Jean-Adolphe Lafosse en 1848 qui est utilisé par le site internet officiel du palais de l'Élysée [1], [2].. C'est Adolphe Thiers, lors des débuts de la III e République, qui inaugure cette tradition d'un ...

Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. It is a study in opposition. Sargent shows a woman posing in a black satin dress with jeweled straps, a dress that reveals …

Description Jeu littéraire. Dans le domaine littéraire, un portrait chinois est un jeu permettant de déceler certains aspects de la personnalité d'un individu ou d'identifier ses goûts ou ses préférences personnelles, au travers d'un questionnaire basé sur l'identification à des personnes, des objets ou des éléments divers [1].. Dans son Dictionnaire des jeux, René Alleau le ...

Vycpaný kivi jižní s mládětem a vejcem. Kiviové (Apterygiformes) jsou řád menších nelétavých ptáků z podtřídy běžců, kteří se endemitně vyskytují pouze na Novém Zélandu.Řád zahrnuje pouze jedinou čeleď kiviovití (Apteryidae) s jediným rodem kivi (Apteryx).Rozlišuje se pět druhů kiviů, které jsou rozšířeny po Jižním i Severním ostrově, Stewartově ...

Iconography. The combination of a life-sized portrait of Elizabeth I with a landscape format is "quite unprecedented in her portraiture", although allegorical portraits in this format, such as the Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession, a 1572 portrait attributed to Lucas de Heere pre-date the Armada Portrait.. English art in this period was isolated from trends in …