Dürer also made several portraits of the Emperor, including one shortly before Maximilian's death in 1519.

The practice of Emperor worship was further spread by distributing imperial portraits for esoteric veneration.

* Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang allots the money of 20 million copper coins and assigns about 1, 000 craftsmen to construct a hall at a Buddhist monastery with tons of painted portraits of himself, and of deities, ghosts, etc.

A number of his paintings were taken to Rome ( including Aphrodite Anadyomene ) and placed there on public display ; in two compositions featuring portraits of Alexander ( Castor and Pollux with Victory and Alexander the Great, and The Figure of War with his Hands Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander ) the Emperor Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus.

His skill as an artist was appreciated by the Emperor Qianlong and Castiglione spent many years in the court painting various subjects, including the portraits of the Emperor and Empress.

His portraits of Charles on horseback updated the grandeur of Titian's Emperor Charles V, but even more effective and original is his portrait of Charles dismounted in the Louvre: " Charles is given a totally natural look of instinctive sovereignty, in a deliberately informal setting where he strolls so negligently that he seems at first glance nature's gentleman rather than England's King ".

According to the custom in the palace, when choosing a new wife, the Emperor was first presented with portraits of all the possible women.

They also held flags of Russia, as well as portraits of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Russian Emperor Peter the Great.

In this period he painted two important portraits: Emperor Sigismund, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ( but the attribution is still contested ) and Portrait of a Man ( now in the Palazzo Rosso, Genoa ).

Among her best known works are The Seasons, April Morning, Place de la Concorde, Among the Flowers, Winter, and portraits of actress Jeanne Samary, Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Charles Garnier.

As a painter favored first by the Portuguese court in exile and later by the imperial court in Rio, Debret was often commissioned to paint portraits of many of its members, such as Portuguese king Dom João VI and the Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, the first empress of Brazil, who married D. Pedro I ( Debret was commissioned to produce a painting of her arrival for the marriage at the Rio port, as well as the public acclaiming of the new Emperor ).

" The custom dates back to the Tang Dynasty, whose founder Emperor Tang Taizong ( 599-May 26, 649 ) honoured two of his most loyal generals – Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde – by having their painted portraits hung on his front door.

Fallmerayer's sketch ( 1841 ) of the founding document of the Dionysiou monastery, Mount Athos, with portraits of Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond and Empress Theodora.

Besides being engaged in painting portraits, which included further portraits of the Empress, the future Emperor Taishō, General Ōyama Iwao, Iwakura Tomomi and Sanjō Sanetomi, Chiossone was constantly kept busy at the Printing Bureau, producing plates for notes, stamps and bonds ; in 1888 he produced a 5 ‑ yen bank note with the figure of Sugawara Michizane on it, and, as his last work before retiring, a 100 ‑ yen note with Fujiwara Katamari ( 614 ‑ 669 ) on it.

In the autumn of that year he traveled to Vienna to execute the portraits of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth that remain among his most well-known works.

Well-accepted and feted by the court of Emperor Dom Pedro II, he executed portraits of several members of the royal court and participated in an artistic exposition.

This form of the imperial mitre-crown can be seen in the extant portraits of such emperors as Frederick III and Maximilian I The bronze effigy of Maximilian I found on his monumental cenotaph in the court church in Innsbruck has a crown with two arches which cross over the top of the mitre and the unique form of the imperial crown adopted by Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico: File: X-Large Portrait of Maximiliano. jpg appears to have been modeled on this form, but with the half-arches and the eagles on the circlet on the front, back and sides of the imperial crown of Napoleon III.

Titian is known to have painted two portraits of Alfonso: the first was widely acclaimed, singled out by Michelangelo and coerced as a diplomatic gift by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ; Alfonso induced Titian to paint a free replica, which the artist of the painting illustrated above has adapted for his model.

He also painted the Portraits at Lingyan Pavilion, under Emperor Taizong of Tang, commissioned in 643 to commemorate 24 of the greatest contributors to Emperor Taizong's reign, as well as 18 portraits commemorating the 18 great scholars who served Emperor Taizong when he was the Prince of Qin.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

As has been mentioned and as will be explained in depth below, there are pieces where Aelbert provided the landscape background for his father ’ s portraits.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

" 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.

His family group portraits are often faceless, which Alston states is the way that white America views blacks.

His portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter, and in the case of Charles IV of Spain and His Family, the lack of visual diplomacy is remarkable.

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

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.

His talents are varied, and he produced a great and extensive variety of work from portraits, woodcuts, altarpieces, drawing, tapestries, allegories and mythologies.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

They are broadly similar in style, though often much superior in quality, to the mummy portraits done in wax ( encaustic ) and found at Fayyum in Egypt.

* Monroe is the last president who had never been photographed and whose portraits are preserved today only on paintings.

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.

The majority of the pictures are of various people encountered on the trip, as informal portraits or showing them engaged in some interesting activity.

Mannerist portraits by Agnolo Bronzino are distinguished by a still elegance and meticulous attention to detail.

Roses are a favored subject in art and appear in portraits, illustrations, on stamps, as ornaments or as architectural elements.

The main body of Anguissola's earlier work consists of self-portraits ( the many " autoritratti " reflect the fact that portraits of her were frequently requested due to her fame ) and portraits of her family, which are considered by many to be her finest works.

The five extant monumental church portraits of the queen are clearly modeled on the Byzantine imagery, but also highlight specifically Georgian themes with an affinity to Iranian-type ideals of female beauty.

The manuscript is " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" its 137 miniatures are a series of " portraits " depicting each poet.

In the portraits, some of the nobles are shown in full armour in their heraldic colors and devices ( therefore with their faces hidden ), often shown as taking part in a joust, or sometimes in single combat with sword and shield, and sometimes in actual battle.

These intimate family scenes are, however, in contrast to the ' licentious ' style, as seen in his Odalisque portraits.