Like Bernini's characteristic works, they often express the Baroque aesthetic of depicting dramatic attitudes and emotional expressions, yet Algardi's sculpture has a restraining sobriety in contrast to those of his rival.

Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.

Algardi's tomb is much less dynamic.

Algardi's large dramatic marble high-relief panel of Pope Leo and Attila ( 1646 – 53 ) for St Peter's Basilica was widely admired in his day, and reinvigorated the use of such marble reliefs.

When his mentor died, Ferrata and another pupil, Domenico Guidi, completed Algardi's unfinished Vision of Saint Nicholas at San Nicola da Tolentino ; ultimately, the innovative arrangement of two independent but interactive groups derives from the original design by Algardi.

The children he painted were almost always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes -- including several self-portraits -- were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic.

The curtains were of the same material, and there were some big oil paintings -- portraits in the style of Lancret and Boucher.

There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone else.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

The five years that followed were highly productive, resulting in over forty portraits.

In his own palace, statues and portraits of his former companion emperor were torn down and destroyed.

In many instances, existing portraits of Domitian, such as those found on the Cancelleria Reliefs, were simply recarved to fit the likeness of Nerva, which allowed quick production of new images and recycling of previous material.

The picture was meant to be massive in scale ; the figures in the foreground were meant to be life-sized portraits of the counterparts, including Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the President of the Constituent Assembly.

At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little ; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.

His three profile portraits of Erasmus, two ( nearly identical ) profile portraits and one three-quarters view portrait were all painted in the same year, 1523.

When a freedman of Nero was giving a gladiatorial show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

The portraits were drawn / painted between 1775 and 1850.

Previously, still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes were usually painted in a studio.

Historical subjects, religious themes, and portraits were valued ( landscape and still life were not ), and the Académie preferred carefully finished images that looked realistic when examined closely.

On arriving in China in the year 1345, one of the first things he noted were the local artists and their mastery in making portraits of newly arrived foreigners.

These portraits are a unique example of art during Jahangir's reign because before, and for sometime after, faces were not drawn full, head-on and including the shoulders as well as the head as these drawings are.

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

It may not be a coincidence that this trend coincided with a national obsession with exotic flowers which made flower portraits highly sought after.

Marcus Amerman, Choctaw, one of today's most celebrated bead artists, pioneered a movement of highly realistic beaded portraits.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

Coinage from this era displays a highly consistent degree of quality including meticulous attention to Domitian's titulature and refined artwork on the reverse portraits.

Even as he approached these portraits with the skill of a highly trained anatomist, what is most noteworthy is the intense psychological presence of his sitters.

Among his most highly regarded pictures during the first eighteen years after his move to London were " The Challenge ", " Christopher Sly ", " Queen of the Swords ", " Conditional Neutrality ", " Hard Hit "-perhaps the best of all-and, within his own family, portraits of his wife and her father, Charles Moxon.

To the modern eye, the portraits appear highly individualistic.

After his death, a huge collection of elaborate drawings were discovered, many in the form of maps and architectural renderings that described a highly personal fantasy exposition, including portraits of his mother as a neo-baroque building.

Throughout his life Toorop also produced portraits, in sketch format and as paintings, which in style range from highly realistic to impressionistic.

In a series of portraits of the late 1630s and 1640s — all now in the Prado — Velázquez painted clowns and other members of the royal household posing as gods, heroes, and philosophers ; the intention is certainly partly comic, at least for those in the know, but in a highly ambiguous way.

Velázquez's portraits of the royal family themselves had until then been straightforward, if often unflatteringly direct and highly complex in expression.

The wall monuments exercised Mino's skills: portraits and bas-reliefs are worked into complex tectonic aedicular structures with elaborate highly individualistic decorative moldings.

The combination of a highly developed artistic ability, craft skill and many years of experience are needed to be able to create lifelike portraits.

Sestertii are highly valued by numismatists, since their large size gave caelatores ( engravers ) a large area in which to produce detailed portraits and reverse types.

Robert Mapplethorpe ( November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989 ) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men.

In the 1980s he refined his aesthetic, photographing statuesque male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes, and highly formal portraits of artists and celebrities.

Stuart painted George Washington in a series of iconic portraits, each of them leading in turn to a demand for copies and keeping Stuart busy and highly paid for years.

His Academy contributions consisted of highly finished pencil profile portraits of his friends in Regency London's artistic establishment.

Zhu Yu ’ s most recent works follow his ideas with the Leftover exhibit, in which he paints highly detailed portraits of mundane objects.

In their highly stylized ways, All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse's morbidly manic screen autobiography ), Ken Russell's surreal portraits of composers or any of Federico Fellini's libidinous self-explorations have delved deeply into the muck of artistic creativity.

Leonard Marion Bahr ( May 12, 1905 – July 25, 1990 ) was a prolific painter of portraits and murals, an illustrator, as well as a highly regarded painting professor for 52 years at the Maryland Institute College of Art ( MICA ).

He produced a highly innovative series of radio broadcasts on Irish literary figures: Irish literary portraits.

Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible " whimsical " antiques.