physiognomies

With a critical eye for anatomy, he expertly captures the subtle nuances of his subjects 'physiognomies through the use of oil on panel, charcoal, and graphite in his life-size paintings and drawings.

Emily Waldorf: Art Chat: Interview With Figurative Painter David Jon Kassan 2010

Most of the big names are here, their physiognomies conjuring their well-known historical personalities: a pudgy, youthful Nero; a wizened, bullish Vespasian; a cultured, bearded Hadrian; and a pinched, discontented Commodus.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

From Leonardo Da Vinci, via the "characters" of Wenceslaus Hollar, the tradition of exaggerating human physiognomies in order to express underlying characteristics was championed by William Hogarth, but, as his 1743 Characters or Caricatures makes clear, the derogatory intent? or otherwise? is in the collusion between the hand of the creator and the eye of the beholder.

Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain 2010

Thomas Pettigrew, in his 1834 History of Egyptian Mummies, quotes a Captain Sutherland's description of them: "The physiognomies of the deceased are so ludicrously mutilated and their muscles are so contracted and distorted in the drying that no French mimic could equal their grimaces."

Screaming Mummies! 2009

The physiognomies of the deceased are so ludicrously mutilated and their muscles are so contracted and distorted in the drying that no French mimic could equal their grimaces.

Screaming Mummies! - Palermo's Undead Dead 2009

Perhaps because of his own unusual appearance, he was fascinated with chronicling the physiognomies of his fellow humans with a fusion of frankness and compassion.

Menzel: Beyond Appearances James Gurney 2009

Perhaps because of his own unusual appearance, he was fascinated with chronicling the physiognomies of his fellow humans with a fusion of frankness and compassion.

Archive 2009-05-01 James Gurney 2009

Dense dry thicket and scrub forest are the typical woodland physiognomies, with Sterculia setigera, Euphorbia conspicua, Strychnos spp.,

Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands 2008

You ought to see a typical Eastern city crowdswart, aberrant physiognomies, & gestures & jabbering born of alien instincts.

Stunted Brachycephalic Rat-Faced Cursed Scum scottedelman 2008

They were supposed to be French, Prussian, Saxon, English, and Dutch, but it was obvious from their Asiatic physiognomies that most of them were conscripts from the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008