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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. 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 painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the... full article at wikipedia

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artwork	artist
Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci
Self Portrait with Black Vase	Egon Schiele
Self-portrait with a friend	Raphael
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers	Marc Chagall
Lansdowne portrait	Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Pope Paul V	Caravaggio
Portrait of Maffeo Barberini	Caravaggio
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti	Raphael
Portrait of Picasso	Juan Gris
Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga	Raphael
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.	Pablo Picasso
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.	Oliver Cromwell
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.	Rainer Maria Rilke
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.	Max Beerbohm
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.	Samuel Johnson
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.	Benjamin Haydon
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.	George Eliot
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.	Charles Dickens
Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.	Paul Klee
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.	Oscar Wilde
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