Crossword clues for portraiture
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
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A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his.
--Shak.Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.The art or practice of making portraits.
--Walpole.
Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.]
--Shaftesbury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French portraiture "portrait, image, portrayal, resemblance" (12c.), from portrait (see portrait).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. 2 The art of painting or photographing portraits. 3 A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
WordNet
Usage examples of "portraiture".
More realistic Italian faces were introduced, architectural and landscape backgrounds encroached upon the Byzantine gold grounds, even portraiture was taken up.
His style at first was rather severe, but he afterward developed much ability in portraiture, historical work, animals, and architectural features.
His counter-influence upon Venetian portraiture has never been quite justly estimated.
His characters were large, but never quite free from weakness, except in portraiture, where he appeared at his best.
The great bulk of it was church altar-pieces, though side by side with this was an admirable portraiture, some knowledge of landscape, and some exposition of allegorical subjects.
In portraiture he was exceedingly strong in characterization, and in his figures very graceful.
His best work was his portraiture, for which he became famous, painting nobility in every country of Europe in which he visited.
The real inaugurators of Dutch portraiture were Mierevelt, Hals, Ravesteyn, and De Keyser.
His best work was in portraiture, and the most important of this is to be seen at Haarlem, where he died after a rather careless life.
Their success has been in portraiture and landscape, and this largely by reason of following the model.
In portraiture he was often beyond criticism, giving the realistic representation with dignity, an elevated spirit, and a suave brush.
It was only by passing a kind of self-denying ordinance and forbidding portraiture at all that the work could be carried out.
The only exception is a portrait of one of the Scarrognini family which is seen on the right-hand wall above the door, the fact of the portraiture being attested by a barbarous scrawl upon the fresco itself.
I explain the fact that the analogies are not closer, by reflecting that this is the one of the few cases in which Tabachetti has left us a piece of portrait work, pure and simple, and that his treatment of the head and figure in pure portraiture, would naturally differ from that adopted in an ideal and imaginative work.
And they say that Bernard Rollins, the portraiture man, is mixed up in the housewarming too.