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Portrait, the Glossary

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.^[1]

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Portrait art

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Akhenaten

Akhenaten (pronounced), also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton (ꜣḫ-n-jtn ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy,, meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Ancestor

An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth).

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Angoulême

Angoulême (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Engoleime) is a small city in the southwestern French department of Charente, of which it is the prefecture.

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Archaic Greece

Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Augustus Washington

Augustus Washington (– June 7, 1875) was an American photographer and daguerreotypist.

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Bithynia

Bithynia (Bithynía) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).

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Cave painting

In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Constantine the Great

Constantine I (27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

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Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.

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Donor portrait

A donor portrait or votive portrait is a portrait in a larger painting or other work showing the person who commissioned and paid for the image, or a member of his, or (much more rarely) her, family. Portrait and donor portrait are portrait art.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Environmental portrait

An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject's usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject's life and surroundings. Portrait and environmental portrait are portrait art.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Faiyum

Faiyum (el-Fayyūm) is a city in Middle Egypt.

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Fayum mummy portraits

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt.

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Flag

A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design.

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Fresco

Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Head of state

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.

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Head shot

A head shot or headshot is a modern (usually digital) portrait in which the focus is on the person's face.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Heraclea Pontica

Heraclea Pontica (Hērákleia Pontikḗ), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea (Pontohērakleia), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus.

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Herakleia head

The Herakleia head is the portrait of a probable Achaemenid Satrap of Asia Minor of the late 6th century, found in Heraclea, in Bithynia, modern Turkey.

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People often see hidden faces in things.

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Hierarchy of genres

A hierarchy of genres is any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value. Portrait and hierarchy of genres are visual arts genres.

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Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel (born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.

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History of art

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.

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Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.

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Ionia

Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.

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Joseon

Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years.

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Josephine Tey

Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author.

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Lagash

Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: Lagaš) was an ancient city state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Al-Shatrah, Iraq.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Lisa del Giocondo

Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Mathew Brady

Mathew B. Brady (– January 15, 1896) was an American photographer.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Moche culture

The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD during the Regional Development Epoch.

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Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa (Gioconda or Monna Lisa; Joconde) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Painterliness

Painterliness is a concept based on malerisch ('painterly'), a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art.

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Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000

Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000 was an international exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2000–2001 that exhibited a painting representing each year of the 20th century. Portrait and painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000 are portrait art.

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Panel painting

A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.

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Parallel Lives

The Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer.

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Personality type

In psychology, personality type refers to the psychological classification of individuals.

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.

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Plastered human skulls

Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian city of Jericho, between 8,000 and 6,000 BC (approximately 9000 years ago), in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Portrait of a Killer

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed is a 2002 nonfiction book by crime novelist Patricia Cornwell that presents the theory that Walter Sickert, a German-British painter, was the 19th-century serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

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Portrait painting

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. Portrait and Portrait painting are portrait art and visual arts genres.

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Portrait photography

Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. Portrait and portrait photography are portrait art.

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Portraits of presidents of the United States

Beginning with painter Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington, it has been tradition for the president of the United States to have an official portrait taken during their time in office, most commonly an oil painting.

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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485.

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Robert Cornelius

Robert Cornelius (March 1, 1809 – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.

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Roger Fenton

Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers.

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Roman sculpture

The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture.

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Royal Numismatic Society

The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics.

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Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a charity based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London that promotes the practice and appreciation of portraiture art.

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Sabouroff head

The Sabouroff head is a Late Archaic Greek marble sculpture.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Self-portrait

A self-portrait is a portrait of an artist made by themselves. Portrait and self-portrait are portrait art and visual arts genres.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Snapshot (photography)

A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent and usually made with a relatively cheap and compact camera.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Statues of Gudea

Approximately twenty-seven statues of Gudea have been found in southern Mesopotamia.

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Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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Symbol

A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.

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The Daughter of Time

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Themistocles

Themistocles (Θεμιστοκλῆς) was an Athenian politician and general.

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Theodosius I

Theodosius I (Θεοδόσιος; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor from 379 to 395.

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Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell (1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait

Also known as Celebrity portrait, Official portrait, Portaiture, Portrait format, Portraitist, Portraits, Portraiture, Ritratto.

, Painterliness, Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000, Panel painting, Parallel Lives, Patricia Cornwell, Personality type, Pharaoh, Plastered human skulls, Plutarch, Politics, Portrait of a Killer, Portrait painting, Portrait photography, Portraits of presidents of the United States, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Richard III of England, Robert Cornelius, Roger Fenton, Roman sculpture, Royal Numismatic Society, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Sabouroff head, Sculpture, Self-portrait, Smithsonian Institution, Snapshot (photography), Sovereign state, Statues of Gudea, Sumer, Symbol, The Daughter of Time, The Guardian, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Times, Themistocles, Theodosius I, Thomas Cromwell, Tomb effigy, Vilhonneur, William Shew, Wolf Hall, Yun Du-seo.

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