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OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Portrait oil painting |
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Portrait oil painting
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Portraitists create their portrait paintings by commission or are inspired by admiration or affection for the subject. If an artist portrayes him- or herself, the painting is called a self-portrait. Portraits can depict the subject 'full body', 'half length' or 'head and shoulders'. Beside human beings, animals, pets and even houses can be chosen as the subject for a portrait.
In the Renaissance, profile portrait paintings depicted donors, represented in the paintings and altarpieces they had commissioned. Important portraitists include Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. One of best-known portrait oil paintings in the Western world is Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled Mona Lisa, which is a painting of an unidentified woman.
Northern European artists used the profile format far less often, and very seldom after 1420. In the Netherlands, Jan van Eyck was a leading portraitist. Leading German portrait artists include Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Durer.
In the Baroque era Flemish painters like Sir Anthony van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens excelled at this type of portraiture. Also during these periods, artists increasingly studied the facial expressions that accompanied different emotions and they emphasized the portrayal of these human feelings in their paintings. In particular, Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini and Dutch painter Rembrandt explored the many expressions of the human face.
The impressionists of the late 19th century relied on family and friends to model for them and painted intimate groups and single figures represented either outdoors or in light-filled interiors. French painters Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Auguste Renoir created some of the most popular portrait oil paintings. |
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| Self-Portrait, 1669 |
| Oil on canvas, 33.86 x 27.76 inches [86 x 70.5 cm] |
| National Gallery, London |
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REH007 |
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32x26 inches |
| price: |
375 USD BUY painting |
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| painting: |
REH007B |
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40x32 inches |
| price: |
435 USD BUY painting |
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