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[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
'''Portraiture''' is the art of making portraits. In painting a '''[[Portrait]]''' is an artistic representation of a person or sitter. 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 or sitter. The [[painter]] is aimed to represent the face and its expression, the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
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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]
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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Group portrait painters in [[Holland]] radically transformed the beholder’s relationship to the work of [[art]]. [[Italian painting|Italian art]] based on internal coherence–that is, a clear hierarchy of the figures depicted in the painting—ran counter to the Kunstwollen (artistic volition) of the artists of democratic Holland, seeking these artists to maintain equality among the sitters. [http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/089236548X.html]
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Some other famous portrait painters are: [[Jan Van Eyck]], [[Raphael]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[El Greco]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Frans Hals]], [[Diego Velazquez]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Thomas Gainsborough]], [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], [[Jacques-Louis David]], [[Francisco de Goya]], [[Gilbert Stuart]], [[Jean Ingres]], [[Sir Francis Grant]], [[Ivan Kramskoy]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Gustav Klimt]], [[José María Velasco]], and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]].
Some other famous portrait painters are: [[Jan Van Eyck]], [[Raphael]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[El Greco]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Frans Hals]], [[Diego Velazquez]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Thomas Gainsborough]], [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], [[Jacques-Louis David]], [[Francisco de Goya]], [[Gilbert Stuart]], [[Jean Ingres]], [[Sir Francis Grant]], [[Ivan Kramskoy]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Gustav Klimt]], [[José María Velasco]], and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]].
Earliest painters used [[landscape|landscapes]] as background of portraits.
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