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Portrait Art

Portrait art includes pictures of people, deities or mythological figures in human form. The genre includes group-portraits as well as those of individuals. A portrait of an individual may be face-only, or head and shoulders, or full-body. Academic portraiture is executed according to certain conventions, concerning dress, the position of hands and other details. This genre was practised by artists of almost all movements, typically in a true-to-life or 'realist style.

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Famous Examples of Portraiture:
 

Lady with an Ermine
Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani
By Leonardo da Vinci.
Regarded as one of the
Greatest Paintings Ever.
Lady with an Ermine (c.1490)
Description
Painting: Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)
Date: c.1490
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Medium: Oil painting
Genre: Portrait art
Location: Czartoryski Museum, Krakow.

Mona Lisa.
By Leonardo da Vinci.
Iconic portrait of the
Italian Renaissance,
and one of the
Greatest Paintings Ever.
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1503-6) DescriptionPainting: Mona Lisa
Date: 1503-06
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Medium: Oil on wood
Genre: Renaissance portrait art
Museum: Louvre, Paris.
 
 
Johannes Vermeer, The Girl With A Pearl Earring, 1665
 
 
Johannes Vermeer, Girl With The Red Hat, 1665-1667
 
 

Portrait Art

Lady with an Ermine (c.1490)

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1503-6)

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