Biography portrait
Jar gift.
Photo frame gift
Portrait
Artistic representation of one or more persons
For other uses, see Portrait (disambiguation).
"Ritratto" redirects here. For the 2020 opera, see Ritratto (opera).
A Roman bust of the Athenian General Themistocles, based on a Greek original.
The lost original of this bust, dated c. 470 BCE, has been described as "the first true portrait of an individual European".[2]
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant.
In arts, a portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen.
Art, biography, history, and identity collide in the sixth season of Portraits, from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painte