One picture that is causing much discussion is Pietro Annigoni's portrait of the Queen, a remarkable royal representation.
Most of the remainder was made for placing in temples votive for private persons and ritual for royal and divine representations.
Until the early 19th century, however, they were mainly representations of royal power, like Louis XIV's menagerie in Versailles.
Zahra's appearance is clearly at odds with typical white-washed representations of royal, wealthy, attractive Middle Eastern women, but her look encompassed the cultural feeling of the time, as the abrou-ye peyvasteh or "continuous eyebrow"—sat firmly on a pedestal.
The first representation of a royal crest was in Edward's third Great Seal, which showed a helm above the arms, and thereon a gold lion passant guardant standing upon a chapeau, and bearing a royal crown on its head.
It has been postulated that this headdress was inspired by the headdress worn by an enthroned figure from the underworld featured on Stela 5. Clancy argues that this headdress is a representation of "the royal theme of quest", due to its iconographic similarity to other stelae at Piedras Negras.
Allan Ramsay emerged as the leading portrait painter of the mid-century and to the royal family, noted for his intimate representations.
In voting terms, this means that the 1.3 billion Chinese have the same representation as the combined royal families of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco, each of which currently has one I.O.C. member.
One of the show's prized rarities is the representation of a Chokwe royal couple, two small but powerful-looking carved figures with bent legs, rigidly held hands and firmly planted big feet.
Prapancha, at least, did not ascribe to Hayam Wuruk an unrealistic degree of authority, even though his poem is an undisguised representation of the attributes of royal divinity and the effects of divine rule in Java.
