Peter Funnell, curator of 19th Century Portraits and head of research programmes at the NPG, said: "Among the great advantages of publishing such a catalogue online is the ability it gives us to update it when items like the Waterhouse portrait enter the collection and the fact that it makes the research free and accessible to all".
But I read the book as much for its portrait of early A.I. research, which Moore captures in all its idealism and raw emotionality: its desire to make being human less lonely by creating machine companions is an impulse not all that different from the ones that lead people to have a child or write a book.
This intimate portrait of life in a research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, revolves around a scientific mystery: the groundbreaking, too-good-to-be-true discovery of a virus that fights cancer.
Mr. Kunstler has long tried to let history dictate his paintings, putting in months of research for a portrait.
15 Including different forms of evidence produces findings that are more relevant to decision-makers, 16 overcomes the issue of a partial portrait based on examining one type of research in isolation, 17 and assists the critical analysis of implementation processes from the viewpoint of the targeted participants.
The winner of the 2007 Costa Biography Award was Simon Sebag Montefiore's exhaustively researched portrait of Young Stalin (2007).
Rowohlt Press, which also publishes Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, initially described the book as a novel of "history and sexuality, science and occultism," and praised it as a "dense, minutely researched portrait of morbid Nazi society".
Koen paints a lavish, carefully researched portrait of a young woman's turbulent coming of age in 18th-century England and France".
And through research, a portrait of lingering vulnerability started to emerge.
Next came his Portrait of Elgar (1968), equally meticulously researched and eloquently written.
