portraiture

IPA: pˈɔrtrʌtʃɝ

A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
The art of painting or photographing portraits.
A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).

Examples of "portraiture" in Sentences

None of Adams's portraiture is included, because Szarkowski finds it "wooden."
But the interest of portraiture is not merely historical; it is also ethnographical.
The common quality about portraiture is that the subject looks directly into the camera.
Women painters have always excelled in portraiture, certainly the most difficult, if not the highest, branch of art.
All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead.
This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness.
When saying, however, that all portraiture is in its origin funerary, I must not be understood to mean that such portraiture is of a memorial character.
Author Harry Berger Jr. explains why portraiture is almost inherently ridiculous, along the way providing insights on European wars, the Haarlem military, and how the Reformation resulted in an atomic family structure which, in turn created feminism as we know it (!).
In this list, de Massoul differentiates between oil colors used in portraiture and those in landscape, with lists of appropriate colors for each. reference This was a common distinction, and one with a practical origin, as manipulating the flesh tones of portraiture and manipulating those to recreate verdure had different chemical properties and different visual constraints.