Ancient bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, now conjectured to be an imaginative portrait of Hesiod.

In fact, it has been recognized since 1813 that the bust was not of Seneca, when an inscribed herma portrait of Seneca with quite different features was discovered.

A Roman Bust ( sculpture ) | portrait bust said to be of Josephus

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

He sat for his portrait busts, both by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and by Alessandro Algardi, whose restrained bust in a tondo is in the Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella.

The correspondence file relating to the Powell portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers ( 2006: 56 ) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.

* British Museum: Bronze portrait bust of Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer ( 1814 )

Around 1440, he executed a bust of a Young Man with a Cameo now in the Bargello, the first example of a lay bust portrait since the classical era.

Through the bust portrait of the king, painted in 1623, Velázquez secured admission to the royal service, with a salary of 20 ducats per month, besides medical attendance, lodgings and payment for the pictures he might paint.

His marble portrait bust by Bernini was not considered a good likeness and was banished to a passageway.

The historic Central Library on the High Street was one of many built with money donated by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, whose portrait bust can be seen on the exterior of the building.

André Thevet illustrated in his iconographic compendium, Les vraies Pourtrats et vies des Hommes Illustres ( Paris, 1584 ), an alleged portrait plagiarized from the bust, supporting his fraud with the invented tale that he had obtained it from the library of a Greek in Cyprus and that he had seen a confirming bust in the ruins of Antioch.

A portrait of him hangs in the Hall and a bust overlooks the front quad.

On the first floor of No. 6 King Edward Street is a portrait bust of former student and benefactor Cecil John Rhodes | Cecil Rhodes.

A marble bust of him stands in the Aberdeen Public Library and his portrait hangs in Marischal College.

Wishing to increase the prestige of the image of France and the French royal family, Colbert played an active role in bringing the great Italian architect-sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Paris ( June – October 1665 ), in order to design the new East Facade of the Louvre and sculpt a marble portrait bust of Louis XIV.

The notables he met in Europe included Franz Liszt, whom he met at the Vatican in 1865 and of whom he produced a portrait bust.

* In the Bargello are also a number of lesser works: Noah ( bas-relief ), portrait busts of Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de ' Medici, Venus, Leda, Hercules, Bacchus Cleopatra and a portrait bust of an unknown man.

Lafayette received an honorary degree from Harvard, a portrait of Washington from the city of Boston, and a bust from the state of Virginia.

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

Other works such as the portrait bust shown are not directly attributed but are instead attributed to his workshop.

Both Judah Herz Beer and his wife were close to the Prussian court ; when Amalia was awarded in 1816 the Order of Louise, she was given, by Royal dispensation, not the traditional Cross but a portrait bust of the Queen.

It plays this role in Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity, and on the reverse of Piero della Francesca's portrait of Battista Strozzi, paired with that of her husband Federico da Montefeltro ( painted c 1472-74 ), Bianca's triumphal car is drawn by a pair of unicorns.

On the other hand, Piero enjoyed a great reputation as a portrait painter: the most famous of his work is in fact the portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, Simonetta Vespucci, mistress of Giuliano de ' Medici.

) Aristocratic women sought to immortalise their breasts in paint, as in the case of Simonetta Vespucci, whose portrait with exposed breasts was painted by Piero di Cosimo in c. 1480.

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

A portrait of the three Consuls ,< span lang =" fr "> Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès </ span >, < span lang =" fr "> Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte </ span > and < span lang =" fr "> Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance | Charles-François Lebrun </ span > ( left to right )

Louis Bertrand ( saint ) | Louis Bertrand ( 1526-1581 ), portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640

Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.

* Cocteau, Jean, Le Coq et l ' Arlequin: notes autour de la musique – avec un portrait de l ' auteur et deux monogrammes par P. Picasso, Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1918

Its distributor, Sony Pictures, advertised that the film " presents a compelling portrait of Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's plays ," and commissioned high school and college-level lesson plans to promote the authorship question to history and literature teachers across the United States.

Image: Louis15-1. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a bravura pastel portrait of Louis XV, 1748

The 18th-century painters Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( see above portrait ) and Rosalba Carriera are especially well known for their pastel technique.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

His commissions for the Hall of Congress ( 1821 ) and a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette ( 1825 ) engaged his sense of democratic nationalism.

In 1825, the city of New York commissioned Morse for $ 1, 000 to paint a portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, in Washington.

* November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist

* February 20 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter ( d. 1702 )

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette | Lafayette, portrait by Joseph-Désiré Court

Image: Pompadour6. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1748 – 1755

** ( buried ) – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter ( b. 1633 )

In dire financial straits following the war, the Liechtenstein dynasty often resorted to selling family artistic treasures, including for instance the portrait " Ginevra de ' Benci " by Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased by the National Gallery of Art of the United States in 1967.

Official portrait of President António José de Almeida, by Henrique Medina.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.