Portrait

Portrait of an Achaemenid Satrap of Asia Minor (the Herakleia head, from Heraclea, in Bithynia), end of 6th century BCE.^[1] This is an Eastern portrait in purely East Greek Archaic style, one of the two known forerunners of extant Greek portraits, along with the Sabouroff head.^[1]

A Roman bust of the Athenian General Themistocles, based on a Greek original. The lost original of this bust, dated c. 470 BCE, has been described as "the first true portrait of an individual European".^[2]

The Mona Lisa, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci of Lisa Gherardini, is the world's most famous portrait.

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face not always is predominant. In arts portrait can be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood - this type of presentation can be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait can be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. It’s important to understand that a subject with eyes closed also can be tractate as a portrait.