We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

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.

The film was intended to be an all encompassing portrait of political movements since May 1968, a summation of the work which he had taken part in for ten years.

Another highly regarded portrait from that period is New England Woman ( 1895 ), a nearly all-white oil painting which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Cartoon Network aired a 20-second segment with black dots tracing Jones ' portrait with the words " We'll miss you-Cartoon Network " fading in on the right-hand side, which aired during a four-hour installment of The Looney Tunes Show that featured nothing but Chuck Jones ' most memorable cartoon shorts.

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.

Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power, which is why she is placed at the center of the group portrait.

The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, 1825 – 27, is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss.

* Falstaff ( 1913 ), a " symphonic study " by Elgar, which is a sympathetic and programmatic musical portrait.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Madelung said of hadith: " Work with the narrative sources, both those that have been available to historians for a long time and others which have been published recently, made it plain that their wholesale rejection as late fiction is unjustified and that with without a judicious use of them, a much more reliable and accurate portrait of the period can be drawn than has been realized so far.

Another criticism of image veneration is found in the non-canonical 2nd-century Acts of John ( generally considered a gnostic work ), in which the Apostle John discovers that one of his followers has had a portrait made of him, and is venerating it:

Desmond Shawe-Taylor has claimed that the portrait may have a religious meaning, Heathfield holding the key similar to St Peter ( Jesus ' " rock ") possessing the keys to Heaven, Heathfield " the rock upon which Britannia builds her military interests ".

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.

Jan Matejko made a sketch of Jadwiga's skull, which later helped him paint her portrait ( see above ).

The evangelist portrait of Luke, from the St. Augustine Gospels ( c. 6th-century ), which may have accompanied Justus to Britain.

Baum had shrewdly transferred most of his property, except for his clothing, his library ( mostly of children's books, such as the fairy tales of Andrew Lang, whose portrait he kept in his study ), and his typewriter ( all of which he successfully argued were essential to his occupation ), into Maud's name, as she handled the finances, anyway, and thus lost much less than he could have.

The Ashbourne portrait of William Shakespeare, which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library was analysed by Charles Wisner Barrell, director of Photography at Bell, who concluded it was an overpainting of the Earl of Oxford, though more recent research identifies it as a portrait of Hugh Hamersley.

Gradually the new type of secular portrait painting appeared, called parsúna ( from " persona " – person ), which was transitional style between abstract iconographics and real paintings.

There are other features in the portrait which remind us strongly of Marcion.

Anguissola traveled to Rome, where she was introduced to Michelangelo who immediately recognized her talent, Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, Madrid, which was a turning point in her career serving as a court painter and painting many official portraits for the Spanish court, and Palermo, Pisa, and Genoa, where she was the leading portrait painter.

It is here that Socrates draws the classic portrait of the absent-minded intellectual who cannot make his bed or cook a meal ( 175e ).

He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and it is sometimes thought that his father may have been the Englishman Samuel Gibbons, who worked under Inigo Jones, but even two of his closest acquaintances, the portrait painter Thomas Murray and the diarist John Evelyn, cannot agree on how he came to be introduced to King Charles II.

" Fay has alleged that whilst Maxim admits that the general context of the times and what it would have been to live as a composer under Soviet rule are generally correct, that Shostakovich's individual portrait was " grossly miscontrued ", and hence, whilst praising the book for highlighting the potential hardships of living under totalitarianism, nevertheless has repeatedly maintained his claim that " it was a book about my father, not by him " — in short, that in his opinion the book cannot be treated as Shostakovich's memoirs, so much as a book about what Shostakovich may have been like.

His engraved portrait is prefixed to his works ( the original is not extant ); an oil-painting, formerly at Siena, cannot be considered authentic.

He maintains that this portrait cannot be fully interpreted until scholars accept the notion that objects can have multiple associations.

That it was not always easy for Graff to portrait the famous of the time shows the remark he made while painting Friedrich Schiller: " He cannot sit still.

Unfortunately the inscription on the right which might have provided a check ( Margaret would have been aged 25 – 28 at the time of this portrait ) has been truncated ; although the Roman numerals of the year can apply only to 1565-8, the age of the sitter cannot be ascertained with any useful accuracy.

Even if the self portrait we distribute for popular consumption were accurate it would be dangerous to present it as a picture of the ideal society.

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

Avedon is credited with the last portrait of the entertainer to be taken before his departure to Europe and therefore the last photograph of him as a singularly " American icon ".

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

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 lyric: " Portrait of the Dead Countess " in the track " A Gothic Romance " could be in reference to the portrait found in the novel of the Countess Mircalla.

Blue Shirt is thought to be a portrait of Jacob Lawrence.

* In Resident Evil ( video game ), a portrait of Cesare Borgia can be seen hanging in the dining room of the mansion.

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

Coins showing the royal portrait began to be minted under King Endubis toward the end of the 3rd century.

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

( Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist, and after they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi during January – March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.

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

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.

This painting may be the only surviving formal portrait of Lucrezia Borgia ; however, doubts have been cast on that claim.

The painting, long claimed to be one of the portraits of Shakespeare, but considered by Barrell to be an overpaint of a portrait of the Earl of Oxford, turned out to represent neither, but rather depicted Hugh Hamersley.

Using the same printer as for the Penny Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor Pedro II, so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark.