While he was in prison, Pope Pius IX sent Davis a portrait inscribed with the Latin words, " Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus ", which comes from Matthew 11: 28 and translates as, " Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.

" A hand-woven crown of thorns associated with the portrait is often said to have been made by the Pope but may have been woven by his wife Varina Davis.

Postwar portrait of Jefferson Davis by Daniel Huntington

In 1921, Ruth Davis moved to New York City with her daughters, where she worked as a portrait photographer.

Davis in a publicity portrait for Warner Bros., around the time she tried to free herself from the studio by taking them to court.

The portrait of Jefferson Davis was designed and line engraved by John Archer, and then transferred to a copper plate.

* John Philip Davis ( 1784 – 1862 ), portrait and subject painter

Horst made a portrait of Bette Davis the same year, the first in a series of celebrities he would photograph during his life.

In the following years Klarwein produced comparably striking designs for the covers of two Miles Davis albums, Bitches Brew ( 1969 ) and Live-Evil ( 1971 ), as well as a portrait of Jimi Hendrix, which was supposed to have been used for the guitarist's collaboration album with big band leader Gil Evans, which never came to fruition due to the guitarist's death.

In 1934 Davis decided he wanted his old friend, John St Helier Lander, a Jersey artist, to paint a portrait of King George V, to commemorate the endowment of the scholarship.

When the commission was complete, the artist and Davis visited the College to discuss where the portrait might be hung.

On 23 July 1935 the Prince of Wales came to Jersey to open the Hall and unveil the portrait of King George V. The Hall was refurbished in 1996 and now exists as the Howard Davis Theatre where numerous types of drama are performed by the pupils.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

This bleak portrait is continued with Thackeray's own role as an omniscient narrator, one of the writers best known for using the technique.

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.

According to popular film lore, Shearer was originally never in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she didn't have enough sex appeal ; it was only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with studio portrait photographer George Hurrell and her husband saw the result, that he relented and gave her the role.

It was then that he painted a great equestrian portrait in which the king is represented as a great commander leading his troops — a role which Philip never played except in pageantry.

The large portrait in the gallery is of Lord Lovelace, who held Oxford for William of Orange during the Revolution of 1688 ; the inscription records his role in freeing England ' from popery and slavery '.

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.

A portrait of Theophilus Cibber in the role of Ancient Pistol, a character who appears in several of Shakespeare's plays.

* In 1906 a portrait of Benjamin Chew was dedicated, honoring his role as Chief Justice, and installed in the Pennsylvania State Capitol building.

It may be significant that in Johann Zoffany's portrait of Robert Baddeley as Moses, we find that " Under his arm Moses holds a rolled parchment of the Surface family tree that is used as an auction hammer, and he seems to be ticking off pictures in the catalogue ," although in the play Careless is the auctioneer in the relevant scene ( IV. 1 ) and Moses has a relatively minor role.

Art historian Gabrielle Langdon argues that the girl's demeanor in the portrait is different than would have been expected for the child Cosimo, whose family anticipated his role as a strong leader from his earliest days.

' " However, on 12 September 2008, AceShowBiz. com revealed that Isaacs is indeed reprising his role of Lucius Malfoy as a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ( 2009 ), where he is seen in a moving portrait.

Saint-Simon, in his Mémoires, draws a devastating portrait of a scheming intrigant, and her accomplices and minion, rather unjustly, and without crediting the important and positive role the princess played in getting and keeping the royal pair on the throne, and arranging the poor finances of the kingdom of Spain.

Alicia Rhett ( born February 1, 1915 ) is an American portrait painter and actress who is best remembered for her role as India Wilkes in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

In the mid 1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema, his other love, after seeing Federico Fellini's 8½ and its portrait of the role of a director.

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Of the portrait painted by co-authors Abramson and Mayer of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice, Time said: " Its portrait of Thomas as an id suffering in the role of a Republican superego is more detailed and convincing than anything that has appeared so far.

" All Points of the Compass is at once a gripping portrait of the " immigrant experience " and a new perspective on the American role in the Vietnam War.

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Somov, The role of structures in semiotic systems ( analysis of some ideas of Leonardo da Vinci and the portrait Lady with an Ermine ).

Ulrich's history is an intimate and densely imagined portrait of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard, and provides a vivid examination of ordinary life in the early American republic, including the role of women in the household and local market economy, and the nature of marriage and sexual relations.

These films constitute, as it were, a portrait of all the facets and contradictions of Italian society: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ( 1970 ), the subject of which is the police-force ; The Working Class Goes to Heaven ( 1971 ), on the worker's condition ; Property Is No Longer a Theft ( 1973 ), about the role of money in our society and how power destroys the individual: Todo modo ( 1976 ), adapted from the homonymous novel by Leonardo Sciascia is about the warped psychic structure of the power moguls among the Christian Democrats.

The Saint was recognized because the young man had often seen his portrait.

Buddy Rogers often gave guests tours of Pickfair, including views of a genuine western bar Pickford had bought for Douglas Fairbanks, and a portrait of Pickford in the drawing room.

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.

He often told me that he got the essence of the portrait while lunching with the model who, off guard, became more natural.

In monarchies, the national side usually features a portrait of the country's monarch, often in a design carried over from the former currency ( e. g. Belgium ).

He photographed many of his friends, often by lamplight, as in his double portrait of Renoir and Mallarmê.

At first the entire figure was painted in greyish-brown tones, with very little flesh colour, the whole blending perfectly with the greyish-brown of the prepared canvas ; then the entire background would be intensified a little ; then the figure made a little stronger ; then the background, and so on from day to day and week to week, and often from month to month .... And so the portrait would really grow, really develop as an entirety, very much as a negative under the action of the chemicals comes out gradually — light, shadows, and all from the very first faint indications to their full values.

Professional portrait and wedding photographers often stipulate by contract that they retain the copyright on wedding photos or portrait photos, so that only they can sell further prints of the photographs to the consumer, rather than the customer reproducing the photos by other means.

The person named in the dedicatory preface and depicted with an engraved portrait often responded with a financial gift or an honorary title.

The habit of depicting the deceased was not a new one, but the painted images gradually replaced the earlier Egyptian masks, although the latter continued in use for some time, often occurring directly adjacent to portrait mummies, sometimes even in the same graves.

Although Gershwin himself spoke of the rhapsody as " a musical kaleidoscope of America ", Rhapsody in Blue has often been interpreted as a musical portrait of New York City ; it is used to this effect in the films Manhattan and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as extensively in this context in a segment from the film Fantasia 2000, in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld, to critical acclaim.

Jacob Jordaens had often used proverbs in his paintings, using the characters in the portrait to play out the meaning of the proverb ( usually a warning of sorts ).

In portrait art, and generally in commissioned work ( including funeral art ), the subjects are usually determined by the wishes of the ( adult ) client, so minors are often in the minority, yet in wealthy families especially heirs are ( re ) presented as part of their social positioning in view of future marriage and succession, generally either as mini-adults or stereotypical youth, e. g. at play or in cozy home scenes.

When landscape was painted it was most often done to show how much property a subject owned, or as a picturesque background for a portrait.

In his late career he often followed a portrait by producing an etching of the subject in a different pose, drawing directly onto the plate, with the sitter in his view.

He typically painted two copies of each family portrait, one for the subject and one for the family, and often made copies of his landscapes as well.

A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial.

Namatjira's love of trees was often described so that his paintings of trees were more portraits than landscapes, which is shown in the portrait of the often depicted ghost gum in Ghost Gum Glen Helen ( c. 1945-49 ).

Parents can purchase packages of these portraits to distribute, often accompanied by other items featuring the portrait.

Alexander Nasmyth ( 9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840 ) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the " father of Scottish landscape painting ".

In history, agate portrait cameos were often gifts from royalty to their subjects.