Crossword clues for portrait
portrait
- Painting of a person
- Many a Rembrandt
- Gilbert Stuart specialty
- "___ of Jennie" (1948 film)
- Subject of a framing?
- Selfie, in a sense
- Rogues' gallery item
- Painting of person
- Painting of a real person
- Museum head?
- Higher than it is wide, as a book
- Gainsborough's forte
- Face painting
- "--- of Jennie" (1948)
- Wall hanging
- Many a White House artwork
- Hanging over many a mantel
- Landscape alternative
- Any likeness of a person
- A painting of a person's face
- A word picture of a person's appearance and character
- Peale product
- Artist has left it for framing?
- Likeness to rap artist regularly is awkward
- Picture left by scoundrel touring Italy
- Depiction of a person
- Type of painting
- "Mona Lisa," for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray.]
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The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
--Sir J. Reynolds.Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness.
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Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.
Portrait \Por"trait\, v. t.
To portray; to draw. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "a figure, drawn or painted," a back formation from portraiture or directly from Middle French portrait, from Old French portret (13c.), noun use of past participle of portraire "to paint, depict" (see portray). Especially of the head and face of a person.
Wiktionary
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal. n. 1 A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders. 2 (context figuratively English) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc. 3 (context computing printing English) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides. v
(context obsolete English) To portray; to draw.
WordNet
n. a painting of a person's face
a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn: portrayal, portraiture]
any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits" [syn: portrayal]
Wikipedia
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 viewer.
Portrait is the fifth album by American pop group The 5th Dimension, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music). This is the group's first album for Bell Records, having switched from the Soul City label. The cover features an impressionistic portrait by famous artist LeRoy Neiman.
The album featured the hit "One Less Bell to Answer", which reached #2 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart.
Portrait is an American R&B vocal quartet, consisting of members Michael Angelo Saulsberry, Irving Washington III, Eric Kirkland and Philip Johnson.
Portrait may refer to:
- For its everyday meaning, a visual likeness of a person, see portrait, or specifically:
- Portrait painting, the most common way before photography in which a distinguished person's image would be realised
- Portrait photography, a more recent and popular alternative to painting
- Self-portraits, in which the artist portrays his own image
- Portrait (literature), for the related term in literature
- For portrait (as opposed to landscape), orientation of a page or piece of paper in which the height is greater than the width, see page orientation
In literature, the term portrait refers to a written description or analysis of a person or thing. A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial. For example, American author Patricia Cornwell wrote a best-selling book titled Portrait of a Killer about the personality, background, and possible motivations of Jack the Ripper, as well as the media coverage of his murders, and the subsequent police investigation of his crimes.
Gertrude Stein also wrote literary portraits of European painters Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Portrait is the debut album of the R&B group Portrait, released in 1992 on Capitol Records. Several of the album's tracks are considered new jack swing classics.
The album reached #70 on the Billboard 200 and #16 on the R&B albums chart.
Portrait is Rick Astley's sixth album, released in 2005. A collection of covers of pop standards, it is his first studio album since 2001`s Keep It Turned On to be released in the UK.
Portrait is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Doc Watson, released in 1987.
Guests include Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush and Mark O'Connor.
Portrait is an early (1968) compilation album manufactured for the European market containing most of Glen Campbell's Country hits up to that point plus some album and single tracks.
Portrait is a 1982 album by pop group, The Nolans. It featured the UK top 20 singles "Chemistry" and "Don't Love Me Too Hard" and reached No.7 in the album charts. It was released earlier as Don't Love Me Too Hard in Japan with a slightly different track-listing, where it became one of the first 50 albums to be released on Compact disc.
Portrait is the first album by the American actress Lynda Carter. It was released in 1978 on vinyl LP, 8-track and cassette as well as a limited edition picture LP. Carter co-wrote three of the songs: "Want to Get Beside You," "Fantasy Man" and "Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)". The album also included the cover songs "She's Always a Woman" by Billy Joel and "Just One Look" by Doris Troy. Promotional singles were released for "All Night Song" and "Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)."
Two of the songs were featured in and performed by Carter's character, Diana Prince in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, "Amazon Hot Wax": "Want to Get Beside You" and "Toto (Don't It Feel Like Paradise)". The latter song makes mention of several elements from the Wizard of Oz stories, and quotes dialogue from the 1939 film.
Portrait was issued on CD by Wounded Bird Records in 2013 with two previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Carter did not release another album for over 30 years due to being a semiprofessional singer. Her second album, At Last, is a jazz and blues standards album and was released in June 2009.
Portrait is the second album by the American pop group The Walker Brothers. Released in 1966 the album was their most successful and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. The group's musical accompaniment was directed by Ivor Raymonde and Reg Guest and produced by John Franz. Receiving good to mixed reviews the album was first released in both Mono and Stereo LP formats in August 1966. The album was later released on CD having been remastered and expanded in 1998. The sleeve notes were written by Keith Altham with photography by Dezo Hoffman.
Portrait was not released in the USA. In its place Smash Records compiled The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore as the group's second album. This alternate version substituted the majority of the album's tracks A-Sides, B-Sides and tracks from their first EP leaving only "Just For A Thrill", "Old Folks", " People Get Ready" and "Take It Like a Man".
Portrait is a Canadian musical variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1965.
"Portrait (He Knew)" is a song by the American progressive rock band Kansas. It was written by Kerry Livgren and Steve Walsh and was recorded for the band's fifth album, Point of Know Return. The song was also released as a single after the success of Point of Know Return and Dust in the Wind and charted at #64 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was later released on the live and compilation albums Two for the Show, Live at the Whisky, Device, Voice, Drum, The Kansas Boxed Set, The Ultimate Kansas, Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection, Works in Progress, and Playlist: The Very Best of Kansas. It appears in a number of different mixes and lengths: the original album version, the edited single version, a different single edit that appears as a bonus track on the European-only 1999 compilation Definitive Collection, and a new remix by the original producers Jeff Glixman as a bonus track on the CD remaster of its original parent album. It was also released on the DVDs of Device-Voice-Drum and Works in Progress.
Portrait is the first studio albums by Filipino singer-actress Nora Aunor, released in 1971 by Alpha Records Corporation in the Philippines in LP format and later released in 1999 in a compilation/ cd format. The album contains some of the original Filipino compositions by Robert Medina, George Canseco and Danny Subido. The album contains 12 tracks among them is the "Waiting For You" composed by George Canseco and "Mother Dear."
Portrait is an album by American guitarist Lee Ritenour released in 1987, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached No. 7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.
Usage examples of "portrait".
Bas-relief 8 Lions Frieze, Susa 9 Painted Head from Edessa 10 Cypriote Vase Decoration 11 Attic Grave Painting 12 Muse of Cortona 13 Odyssey Landscape 14 Amphore, Lower Italy 15 Ritual Scene, Palatine Wall painting 16 Portrait, Fayoum, Graf Collection 17 Chamber in Catacombs, with wall decorations 18 Catacomb Fresco, S.
In this rapid portrait of chivalry I have been urged to anticipate on the story of the crusades, at once an effect and a cause, of this memorable institution.
Family portraits, artsy shots of nude men and women, even several examples of family pets.
These are many of them portraits full of serious dignity and unspotted by the world of barocco with which Tabachetti was surrounded.
Given the language difficulties, it took a while for Tina Blau to convey her request that Meli and the python pose for a portrait.
Among other compliments and marks of homage the old man was presented with a golden plaque, on one side of which Sicard, who stood revealed as a master of the burin, had engraved his portrait with rare fidelity.
In a letter, written in the humoristic style in which she delighted, she gives us portraits of some of her comrades of that time.
Peeling clear of the wood, curling tighter and tighter, and finally crumbling into small bits with what must have been malignly silent suddenness, the portrait of Joseph Curwen had resigned forever its staring surveillance of the youth it so strangely resembled, and now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine blue-grey dust.
Lo Manto said, his eyes briefly looking past the boy toward a young couple in the rear of the restaurant, their backs to a framed portrait of the Bay of Naples, locked in a long, passionate kiss.
It had been miscatalogued in England and sold as an unidentified portrait of a young girl.
My brother and my sister both missed them, but they go back in the family portraits for three hundred years.
However much you may be mourned, your widow will like to have her weeds neatly made--the cook will send or come up to ask about dinner--the survivor will soon bear to look at your picture over the mantelpiece, which will presently be deposed from the place of honour, to make way for the portrait of the son who reigns.
Lot 13, when a second glance at the portrait had reinforced the feeling that under the layers of grime and overpaint lay buried treasure.
With no distraction from Wayne and Eddie she worked steadily without interruption, and by late afternoon most of the overpaint was removed, leaving the portrait almost ready to part with its discoloured varnish.
The Dutch were long at a loss what to make of this article, till it was discovered that a portrait of Cornelius de Wit, brother to the pensionary, painted by order of certain magistrates of Dort, and hung up in a chamber of the town-house, had given occasion to the complaint.