portraiture

portraiture
Synonyms and related words:
acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, coloring, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, evocation, exemplification, figuration, finger painting, flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache, graphic account, grisaille, head, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impasto, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, mural painting, musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting, particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, portrait, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush, vignette, vivid description, wash, wash drawing, word painting, writing

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  • portraiture — ⇒PORTRAITURE, subst. fém. Vx, littér. A. ARTS PLAST. Action de portraire; résultat de cette action, portrait. Portraitures d amis, de parents. Toutes les fois que je vais pisser, je contemple au dessus de ma table de nuit ta truculente… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Portraiture — Por trai*ture (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.] 1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. [1913 Webster] For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • portraiture — mid 14c., from O.Fr. portraiture (12c.), from portrait (see PORTRAIT (Cf. portrait)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • portraiture — Portraiture. s. Portrait. Il est vieux. On dit, En termes de Peinture, Livre de portraiture, pour dire, Livre qui enseigne à dessiner toutes les parties du corps humain …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Portraiture — Por trai*ture, v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • portraiture — index representation (statement) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • portraiture — [pôr′tri chər] n. [ME purtreiture < MFr: see PORTRAY] 1. the process, practice, or art of portraying 2. a portrait 3. portraits collectively …   English World dictionary

  • portraiture — (por trè tu r ) s. f. 1°   Terme vieilli. Portrait. •   De cette propre main j ai fait ma portraiture, TH. CORN. D. Bertr. de Cigarral, IV, 1. 2°   Terme de peinture. Livre de portraiture, livre enseignant à dessiner toutes les parties du corps… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • PORTRAITURE — s. f. Portrait. Il est vieux.  En termes de Peinture, Livre de portraiture, Livre qui enseigne à dessiner toutes les parties du corps humain …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • PORTRAITURE — n. f. Portrait. Il est vieux. En termes de Peinture, Livre de portraiture, Livre qui enseigne à dessiner toutes les parties du corps humain …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • portraiture — [[t]pɔ͟ː(r)trɪtʃə(r)[/t]] N UNCOUNT Portraiture is the art of painting or drawing portraits. [FORMAL] …   English dictionary

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