Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or practice of making portraits.
- n. A portrait.
- n. Portraits considered as a group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A representation or picture; a painted resemblance; a likeness or portrait.
- n. Likenesses or portraits collectively.
- n. The art of making portraits; the art or practice of portraying or depicting, whether in pictures or in words; the art of the portraitist.
- To paint; portray.
Wiktionary
- n. the art of painting or photographing portraits
- n. a portrait (or portraits considered as a group)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- n. obsolete Pictures, collectively; painting.
- n. The art or practice of making portraits.
- v. rare To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the activity of making portraits
- n. a word picture of a person's appearance and character
Examples
“This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness.”
“Author Harry Berger Jr. explains why portraiture is almost inherently ridiculous, along the way providing insights on European wars, the Haarlem military, and how the Reformation resulted in an atomic family structure which, in turn created feminism as we know it (!).”
“In this list, de Massoul differentiates between oil colors used in portraiture and those in landscape, with lists of appropriate colors for each. reference This was a common distinction, and one with a practical origin, as manipulating the flesh tones of portraiture and manipulating those to recreate verdure had different chemical properties and different visual constraints.”
“The common quality about portraiture is that the subject looks directly into the camera.”
“None of Adams's portraiture is included, because Szarkowski finds it "wooden.”
“Women painters have always excelled in portraiture, certainly the most difficult, if not the highest, branch of art.”
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
“All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead.”
“When saying, however, that all portraiture is in its origin funerary, I must not be understood to mean that such portraiture is of a memorial character.”
“But the interest of portraiture is not merely historical; it is also ethnographical.”
“[3] John Opie (1761 – 1807; DNB), Cornish-born artist, who specialised in portraiture and history painting.”
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