Sentence examples for number of portrait from inspiring English sources

Both works derive from Fra Filippo Lippi's slightly earlier fresco cycle in the cathedral at Prato and contain a number of portrait heads arranged, rather stiffly, in the symmetrical type of composition that was to become increasingly identified with Ghirlandaio.

Mr Elliott had sat for a number of portraits including a sketch completed two months before he died.

One giveaway, perhaps, is the large number of portraits of women and girls, including several intimate nudes.

Desportes was invited by King John III Sobieski to the court of Poland (1695 96), where he painted a number of portraits of members of the royal family.

He associated with the finest members of Russian society and painted and drew a great number of portraits, each of which was a revelation.

Once past customs, I was curious to peek inside the office of Air Koryo, North Korea's airline, and count the number of portraits on the wall.

He became painter to the Saxon court in Dresden in 1745 and executed a large number of portraits, most in brightly coloured pastels.

Inside the gallery Stieglitz took a number of portraits that rhymed the faces of his sitters with the shapes on the walls.

He sculpted a number of portraits in bronze and plaster, and he sought to reveal the spiritual substratum of his subjects; his portrait of the composer Igor Stravinsky (1951) is a striking example of this psychological insight.

From 1631 to 1635, in Uylenburgh's workshop, Rembrandt produced a substantial number of portraits (mainly pairs of pendants) and some group portraits, such as The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632).

In these as well as in a number of portraits of Catherine's most-prominent generals, diplomats, and members of her circle including the empress herself Levitsky reflected Catherine's many governmental accomplishments.