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Description :: Description (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Silhouette :: Silhouette (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be..

Whole-length :: Whole-length (n.) A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.

Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape..

Pose :: Pose (v. t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait..

Portrait :: Portrait (v. t.) To portray; to draw.

Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information..

Statued :: Statue (n.) A portrait.

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) The art or practice of making portraits.

Liveliness :: Liveliness (n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait..

Effigy :: Effigy (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits..

Sitter :: Sitter (n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust..

Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter

Air :: Air (n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air..

Background :: Background (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Natural :: Natural (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting..

Flatter :: Flatter (v. t.) To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him..

Sudary :: Sudarium (n.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion..

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