Sentence examples for exceptional portrait from inspiring English sources

Goya's prints are an exception, for alongside a handful of his exceptional portrait paintings from the 1780s and 1790s they represent the pinnacle of his technical and creative achievement as an artist.

Thinking and feeling are, for Nelson, mutually necessary processes; the result is an exceptional portrait both of a romantic partnership and of the collaboration between Nelson's mind and heart.

In the exceptional Portrait of a Gentleman of 1555 from the Pitti Palace, for example, he worked in monotone, reserving his bravura touches for the man's lynx-fur lined coat.

Walk through this show and the citizens of Bergamo gather around you – vital, alert, each with his or her unique inner self, expression and stance, freshly present in Moroni's exceptional portraits.

This is an exceptional unofficial portrait, unusually boldly painted, which creates a powerful effect of familiar and living likeness.

"It fuses an exceptional horse portrait with one of his finest landscape backgrounds, the historic racetrack at Chantilly".

And today, this exceptional Rembrandt portrait still shines brightly as the crown jewel of the Norton Simon Museum collection.

To a contemporary eye, they are a virtue; they give Cameron's portraits exceptional vulnerability, spirituality and candor, without quite undercutting their formality.

Velázquez's late bust portraits of Philip IV (c. 1654 and c. 1656), of which many studio versions exist, are very different in character and are exceptional as royal portraits for their informal appearance.

Nevertheless, portraits of contemporaries were still exceptional, and many early portraits are semi-idealized studies of the great philosophers, statesmen, or poets of the Classical period.

On one wall of an entrance area hang two exceptional works: Brenda Zlamany's "Portrait No. 6 (Chuck Close)" (1994) and "Untitled No. 280" (1999) by Andrew Mansfield.