Although the thousands of roadside portraits bearing his image are gone, a giant relief of the ruler ordering the construction of a bridge across the Tigris is intact, complete with his uniformed, commanding figure.
They overflow with sumptuous textiles, family portraits bearing coats of arms, fine silver and porcelain and gilded everything — arranged in the more-is-more manner of the Spanish American upper crust, with cabinets stacked in pyramids and luxury goods laid out on carpeted platforms.
Drawn largely from the museum's sizable collection of Spanish colonial art, it overflows with sumptuous textiles, family portraits bearing coats of arms, fine silver and porcelain and gilded everything — and leaves you in the strange position of marveling at the opulence of domestic life in the Spanish colonies while pondering some of the ugliest social repercussions of colonialism.
There was a fad for portrait-bearing cartes de visite, and it was customary for new enlistees to visit a portrait studio before heading off to war.
Starting with the Warhol's 1972 demonic portrait of Nixon bearing the slogan "Vote McGovern", the exhibition proceeds with a series of political portraits all appropriated from Warhol, among them a portrait of George W. Bush with a handwritten note, "Vote Obama".
A few placards bearing portraits of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong stood out among the Chinese flags carried by most of the demonstrators.
North Korea's propaganda artists have manufactured large volumes of portraits and badges bearing the son's image, reported Open Radio for North Korea, a Web site based in Seoul that gathers news from sources inside the North.
BASHMAGH, Iraq — Two giant billboards bearing portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, glare down from the Iranian side of this busy border crossing in northern Iraq.
While they wait for the grants given to asylum-seekers, which are subject to long delays, the migrants can use a local currency in Riace, with vouchers bearing portraits of Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Che Guevara.
Ed Kyle, of Morgan City, whose pockets are familiar with United States currency bearing portraits that most people in their lifetime never see and do not even know exist, throws one dollar into the pot.
A whole series of portraits of celebrities bearing an uncanny resemblance to Winnie's situation were taken in the manner of surrealism, mostly in the late 1930s, by the British photographer Angus McBean.
