Editing Portrait (section)

{{short description|Artistic representation of one or more persons}}
{{Other uses|Portrait (disambiguation)}}
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|image3= Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg
|caption3=The ''[[Mona Lisa]]'', a painting by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] of [[Lisa Gherardini]], is the world's most famous portrait.
| image1   = Achaemenid Satrap Asia Minor end of 6th century BCE.jpg
| caption1 = Portrait of an [[Achaemenid]] Satrap of [[Asia Minor]] (the [[Herakleia head]], from [[Heraclea Pontica|Heraclea]], in [[Bithynia]]), end of 6th century BCE.<ref name="TAM">{{cite journal |last1=Cahn |first1=Herbert A. |last2=Gerin |first2=Dominique |title=Themistocles at Magnesia |journal=[[The Numismatic Chronicle]]|volume=148 |date=1988 |pages=20 & plate 3 |jstor=42668124 }}</ref> This is an Eastern portrait in purely [[Ionia|East Greek]] [[Archaic Greece|Archaic]] style, one of the two known forerunners of extant Greek portraits, along with the [[Sabouroff head]].<ref name="TAM"/>
| image2   = Busto di temistocle, da originale greco del V secolo ac, dal decumano presso il casamento del temistocle.JPG
| caption2 = A Roman bust of the [[Athenian]] General [[Themistocles]], based on a Greek original. The lost original of this bust, dated {{Circa|470 BCE}}, has been described as "the first true portrait of an individual European".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Jeremy |title=The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521846141 |page=97 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmbctV2X-sEC&pg=PA97 |language=en}}</ref>
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A '''portrait''' is a [[portrait painting|painting]], [[portrait photography|photograph]], [[sculpture]], or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, [[Personality type|personality]], and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a [[Snapshot (photography)|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 may be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4.