Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of portrait is as below...

Retrait :: Retrait (n.) A portrait; a likeness.

Iconography :: Iconography (n.) The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients..

Background :: Background (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Portraitist :: Portraitist (n.) A portrait painter.

Flatter :: Flatter (v. t.) To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him..

Liveliness :: Liveliness (n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting..

Statued :: Statue (n.) A portrait.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Iconology :: Iconology (n.) The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (v. t.) To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray..

Silhouette :: Silhouette (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be..

Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club..

Air :: Air (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air..

Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information..

Limner :: Limner (n.) One who paints portraits.

Sudary :: Sudarium (n.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion..

Effigy :: Effigy (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits..

Random Fonts

Most Popular