portrait
Let an agent explain portraiture and its traditions, help people commission or create portraits, research portraits and sitters with sources, and separate other senses of portrait.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain portraiture and its traditions, help people commission or create portraits, research portraits and sitters with sources, and separate other senses of portrait.
An artistic representation of a person, usually showing the face and often the upper body, in painting, drawing, sculpture, print or photography, intended to convey likeness, personality and status, with traditions from official and royal portraits to Japanese nigao-e and shini-e prints; portraits are commissioned, collected and studied in art history, and the term also denotes a page orientation.
What it is for: Representing people in art.
It can be explain portrait types and conventions; help commission or create a portrait; research a portrait and its sitter; separate other senses.
Distinguishing features
Likeness of a person
Many media
Conventions of pose and view
Cultural traditions
What it looks like
Images of people in various media.
How it is recognised
Focus on a person likeness
Face and often upper body
A genre scene shows people in narrative rather than as likenesses
Related models
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is made by - artist
is related to - other creative roles
In practice
Families and kinds
painted and drawn portraits
sculpted portraits and busts
photographic portraits
printed portraits such as nigao-e and memorial shini-e
self-portraits and group portraits
Standards and regulation
Copyright and image rights
Rules on official portraits in institutions
Museum cataloguing standards
Failure modes and hazards
Misidentified sitters
Rights disputes
Confusing senses
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Types Kinds of portrait.
Media and conventions.
Identify
Portrait type.
Identify
Type.
- What type of portrait is this, in which medium, and what conventions of pose and view does it use? definition
- Which tradition does it belong to? provenance
Traditions
Cultural traditions.
Traditions
Traditions.
- What are nigao-e, shini-e and other portrait traditions, as described by scholars of those cultures? provenance
- How do official portraits function? provenance
Research A specific portrait.
Sources.
Sitter
Who is portrayed.
Sitter
Sitter.
- Who is the sitter, and who made the portrait, according to catalogues and provenance records? provenance
- Is the identification disputed? boundary
Meaning
Reading a portrait.
Meaning
Reading.
- What do the pose, setting and symbols convey about the sitter and the period? provenance
- How do art historians interpret it? provenance
Commission Making portraits.
Practical.
Commissioning
Commissioning a portrait.
Commissioning
Commissioning.
- How should a portrait be commissioned, including artist choice, price, sittings and rights? action
- Which rights does the sitter have to the image? provenance
Create
Creating portraits.
Create
Creating.
- Which techniques help in drawing, painting or photographing a portrait? action
- How can likeness and character be captured? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Portrait has other senses.
Orientation
Page orientation.
Orientation
Page orientation.
- Is portrait meant as a page or image orientation? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Written
Written portraits.
Written
Written portraits.
- Is a written character portrait or profile meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should each portrait type be a separate entry?
- How should museum catalogues be linked?
- How should commissioning guidance be linked?