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portrait

vr.tr.portrait · INF.MED

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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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

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

is a kind of - category

image

is a kind of - category

work

is made by - artist

painter

is related to - other creative roles

designer

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

shini-eportrait (print)three-quarter viewgoshin'einigao-emusha-echinsōportrait at bust lengthtype B portrait by Witkacytype C artwork by Witkacyportrait photographportrait miniaturetype A portrait by Witkacytype E portrait by Witkacytype D portrait by Witkacytype B+E portrait by Witkacytype B+d portrait by Witkacytype E+d portrait by Witkacytype B+A portrait by Witkacytype B+E+d portrait by Witkacytype B+D portrait by Witkacycorporation piecetroniegroup portraitthree-quarter portraithalf-length portraitfull-frontal portraitfull-length portraitback portraitself-portraitfront viewdonor portraitconjectural portraitcatafalque portraitbijin-gaportrait sculptureofficial portraithistoriated portraitequestrian portraitprofil perdu

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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.

  1. What type of portrait is this, in which medium, and what conventions of pose and view does it use? definition
  2. Which tradition does it belong to? provenance

Traditions

Cultural traditions.

Traditions

Traditions.

  1. What are nigao-e, shini-e and other portrait traditions, as described by scholars of those cultures? provenance
  2. How do official portraits function? provenance
Research A specific portrait.

Sources.

Sitter

Who is portrayed.

Sitter

Sitter.

  1. Who is the sitter, and who made the portrait, according to catalogues and provenance records? provenance
  2. Is the identification disputed? boundary

Meaning

Reading a portrait.

Meaning

Reading.

  1. What do the pose, setting and symbols convey about the sitter and the period? provenance
  2. How do art historians interpret it? provenance
Commission Making portraits.

Practical.

Commissioning

Commissioning a portrait.

Commissioning

Commissioning.

  1. How should a portrait be commissioned, including artist choice, price, sittings and rights? action
  2. Which rights does the sitter have to the image? provenance

Create

Creating portraits.

Create

Creating.

  1. Which techniques help in drawing, painting or photographing a portrait? action
  2. How can likeness and character be captured? action
Senses Disambiguation.

Portrait has other senses.

Orientation

Page orientation.

Orientation

Page orientation.

  1. Is portrait meant as a page or image orientation? boundary
  2. Which entry fits? action

Written

Written portraits.

Written

Written portraits.

  1. Is a written character portrait or profile meant? boundary
  2. 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?