The book is a collection of historic and current portrait photographs of figures from the computer industry.

Soon figures populated his scenes as well, supposedly in response to a portrait painter who challenged him to take up the genre.

Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of " The " Club.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

The early years of the nineteenth century saw Lawrence's portrait practice continue to flourish: amongst his sitters were major political figures such as Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose wife Lady Caroline Lamb was also painted by Lawrence.

Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.

Of the several figures on the Augustan Ara Pacis, one doubles as a portrait of the Empress Livia, who wears Ceres ' corona spicea.

The form was also used for portrait busts of famous public figures, especially writers like Socrates and Plato.

The Apes of God ( 1930 ) has been interpreted similarly, because many of the characters satirised are Jewish, including the modernist author and editor Julius Ratner, a portrait which blends anti-semitic stereotype with historical literary figures ( John Rodker and James Joyce ; though the Joyce element consists solely in the use of the word " epiphany " in the parody of Rodker included in the novel ).

These principal figures include a portrait of James V, the Devil, St Michael, and representations of Venus and several planetary deities.

According to Janson, not only is the gathering of figures in the foreground for Philip and his wife's benefit, but the painter's attention is concentrated on the couple, as he appears to be working on their portrait.

He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects.

) Unlike any definitive stamps ever issued before, the 1902-03 issues also had ornate sculptural frame work redolent of Beaux-Arts architecture about the portrait, often including allegorical figures of different sorts, with several different types of print used to denote the country, denominations and names of the subjects.

1760 – 5 December 1802 ) was an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ( currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street ) and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.

For the Genoese aristocracy, then in a final flush of prosperity, he developed a full-length portrait style, drawing on Veronese and Titian as well as Rubens ' style from his own period in Genoa, where extremely tall but graceful figures look down on the viewer with great hauteur.

Another similar type of painting is the family portrait combining figures with a well-set table of food, which symbolizes both the piety of the human subjects and their thanks for God ’ s abundance.

The " Benin Bronzes ", portrait figures, busts and groups created in iron, carved ivory, and especially in brass ( conventionally called " bronze "), were taken from the city by the British and are currently displayed in various museums around the world.

He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, as well as establishing one of the first museums.

On the lid are reclining figures of Balbinus and his wife, the figure of the Emperor also being a fine portrait of him.

In 1850 Brady produced The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, a portrait collection of prominent contemporary figures.

* 1914: The first $ 100 Federal Reserve Note was issued with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the obverse and allegorical figures representing labor, plenty, America, peace, and commerce on the reverse.

By 1899 however, The $ 2 Silver Certificate was redesigned with a small portrait of George Washington surrounded by allegorical figures representing agriculture and mechanics.

Marstrand returned to portrait painting with even more seriousness in the late 1850s, depicting some of the key figures of the age, including Constantin Hansen ( 1852, 1862 ), Bernhard Severin Ingemann ( 1860 ), Grundtvig ( 1863 ), Høyen ( 1869 ), the architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, not forgetting his earlier portraiture of Købke in 1839.

But his only signed pictures of this period are the Neptune and Amphitrite of 1516 at Berlin, and the Madonna, with a portrait of Jean Carondelet of 1517, at the Louvre, both of which suggest that Vasari only spoke by hearsay of the progress made by Mabuse in the true method of producing pictures full of mythological nude figures and poesies.

A portrait as diversified as the one already pointed out for the coronal features is emphasized by the analysis of the dynamics of the main structures of the corona, which evolve in times very different among them.

" Nevertheless, the portrait drawings he produced in such profusion during this period are of outstanding quality, and rank today among his most admired works.

His portrait drawings, of which about 450 are extant, are today among his most admired works.

After his death, some of his work was lost, but much was collected, and by the 19th century, Holbein was recognised among the great portrait masters.

Holbein also painted the occasional portrait in Basel, among them the double portrait of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, and, in 1519, that of the young academic Boniface Amerbach.

The camera pans over the crowd and reveals Zmuda in the audience, hinting that Kaufman faked his own death as the ultimate " Kaufman stunt " and is indeed onstage as Clifton ; a neon portrait of Kaufman is shown among other comedy legends.

The portraits in the Hall include the work of notable artists ; among the portraits of principals is Sir J. J. Shannon's portrait of Dame Elizabeth, Philip de Laszlo's of Miss Jex-Blake, Sir Rodrigo Moynihan's of Dr Grier and Maud Sumner's of Miss Sutherland.

In view of the near-total loss of Greek and Roman paintings, mummy portraits are today considered to be among the very rare examples of ancient art that can be seen to reflect " Great paintings " and especially Roman portrait painting.

She was soon the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites.

Morath's portrait of Mrs. Eveleigh Nash, from that assignment, is among her best-known works.

Delacroix produced several fine self-portraits, and a number of memorable portraits which seem to have been done purely for pleasure, among which were the portrait of fellow artist Baron Schwiter, an inspired small oil of the violinist Nicolò Paganini, and Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, a double portrait of his friends, the composer Frédéric Chopin and writer George Sand ; the painting was cut after his death, but the individual portraits survive.

* On the next series, Menander introduces his own portrait, a hitherto unknown custom among Indian rulers.

Numerous other artisans, sculptors and portrait painters were employed, among them the court artist Jean-Marc Nattier, in the 1750s François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and François-Hubert Drouais.

His second and final novel, Infinite Jest ( 1997 ), a futuristic portrait of America and a playful critique of the media-saturated nature of American life, has been consistently ranked among the most important works of the 20th century.

The ceiling of the King ’ s Presence Chamber was originally decorated with a series of carved oak portrait roundels known as the Stirling Heads, described as " among the finest examples of Scottish Renaissance wood-carving now extant.

This last period in Romania was the one in which he exhibited a closer relationship with the Iron Guard, which had, by then, taken power ( see National Legionary State ) — on 28 November, he recorded a speech for the state-owned Romanian Radio, one centered on the portrait of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, former leader of the movement, who had been killed two years before ( praising him and the Guard for, among other things, " having given Romanians a purpose ").

Blue Öyster Cult also used laser shows on tours that supported their album Spectres, which shows a staged portrait of the band members seated among the laser beams, and Electric Light Orchestra made use of lasers during their 1978 Out of the Blue Tour which also featured the famous " Flying Saucer ".

De Weldon eventually moved to London, where he gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait sculpture of George V.

The viewer feels it would be possible to reach in and grab the nose of a Rembrandt portrait or an apple in a Cézanne still life — or step inside a landscape and walk around among its trees and rocks.

* 1952, Garnet's portrait was included among those in Civil Rights Bill Passes, 1866, a mural painted in the Hall of Capitols, the Cox Corridors of the Capitol building in Washington, DC.

Nevertheless, she remained with the emperor and among the several proofs of affection and favour are the minting of coins with her portrait and the title mater castrorum ( mother of the camp ).