2,000-year-old mummy portrait looks way ahead of its time

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
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Presidential portraits: Inside Kehinde Wiley’s secret, decade-long project painting African leaders

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.
Artnet

A Portrait of an Enslaved Man Hung in a Mansion for Over a Century. His Story Is Finally Emerging

The painting was jointly acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Detail of painting attributed to C.R. Parker, Portrait of Frederick (c. 1840), which has ...
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Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...
Government Technology

Portrait of a Graduate — A Trend in the Right Direction

There are many discussions happening about what the ideal “portrait of a graduate” looks like — schools, districts and entire states are engaged in the exploration process. I think that is a good ...
Forbes

Beneath A Picasso Painting, A Mysterious Hidden Portrait Emerges

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...
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Rare portraits of enslaved Mississippians displayed together at Mississippi Museum of Art

JACKSON, Miss. – With powerfully haunting eyes and an enigmatic expression, “Portrait of Frederick,” an enslaved man painted circa 1840, stares out at visitors of the Mississippi Museum of Art. A ...