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[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
In painting a '''[[Portrait]]''' is an artistic representation of a person. The [[painter]] is aimed to represent the face and its expression, the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Earliest painters used [[landscape|landscapes]] as background of portraits.
'''Portraiture''' is the art of making portraits. In painting a '''[[Portrait]]''' is an artistic representation of a person. The [[painter]] is aimed to represent the face and its expression, the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Earliest painters used [[landscape|landscapes]] as background of portraits.
The National Portrait Gallery in London was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women; the Gallery collections include over 195,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. [http://www.npg.org.uk/]
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A portrait is typically defined as a representation of a specific individual, such as the artist might meet in life. A portrait does not merely record someone's features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person's presence. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/port/hd_port.htm]
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The National Portrait Gallery in London was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women; the Gallery collections include over 195,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. [http://www.npg.org.uk/] The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1962; It is the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to portraiture. It houses around 21,000 works of art. The Education Department uses history and the arts as a vehicle to introduce visitors to significant Americans in the Portrait Gallery's collection. [http://npg.si.edu/inform/overview.html]
[[Albrecht Dürer]]'s made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe.
[[Albrecht Dürer]]'s made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe.