Michelangelo, when charged with the lack of portrait-like resemblance in his Medici capitani to their ostensible models, reputably replied that no one in the future would know what they actually looked like.
Despite its light-hearted tone and lack of permanence, Brad Downey's Portrait of My Father is a fine step forward for Atlanta.
He appeared to be harmlessly ethereal, explaining that his utter lack of success in painting any portrait that patrons would buy was because he was too sophisticated, and actually aiming to be a Raphael or a Titian.
After studying photography at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Baca started taking on clients in 2010, but two years ago, she started to feel a lack of creativity in her traditional portrait work.
Fruitvale Station is a fair portrait of Oscar Grant's story, and a brilliant portrait of how lack of opportunity, routine incarceration and racism conspire to devalue the lives of young black men in America.
And it lacks a truly major painting, along the lines of "Portrait of Olga Meerson" or "The Italian Woman" (both reproduced in the catalog).
In between this alpha and omega there is no lack of Picassos to ponder, from portraits of lovers to spirited takeoffs on work by masters like Velázquez and Matisse.
If there's any defect in her portrait, it's Mariana's lack of flaws.
The lack of gaze might be seen as a self portrait of the person who looks at the images.
Though Velázquez frequently followed traditional compositions, particularly for his royal portraits, it was from no lack of ability to compose or invent.
Thus our medieval queens are skeletons without flesh, two dimensional in their lack of character, without even a physical description since medieval portraits are rare.
