Sentence examples for state portrait from inspiring English sources
France's Louis XIV called in a leg double for his state portrait to ensure that his calves looked sufficiently regal.
Dr. Dean himself is an avid biker, and his official state portrait shows him with a canoe paddle.
He also arranged a stupendous banquet for a thousand guests in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, complete with sugar sculptures and a large state portrait of James II.
When it came to adorning the city's churches and all-powerful confraternities, as well as for painting state portraits or soft-porn fantasies for private delectation, he was the artist of choice.
His more intimate portrait sculptures, however, such as that of the Duchesse de Bourgogne as Diana (1710; Louvre), omit the Italianate swagger of Bernini and the formality of the state portraits and anticipate the naturalism and grace of the Rococo style.
Reynolds's state portraits of the king and queen were never considered a success, and he seldom painted for them; but the prince of Wales patronized him extensively, and there were few distinguished families or individuals who did not sit for him.
Figure 1 2-D state portraits of the fractional-order induction motor.
At the 2006 Tokyo Game Show, Igarashi confirmed details about the WiFi modes and stated Portrait of Ruin would have a cooperative time attack and an online shop mode.
And if you tell someone's life story through their interactions with the state, the portrait of government that emerges from the telling is almost guaranteed to feel comprehensive, claustrophobic, and yes, paternalistic.
In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect".
The late head of state's portraits have been removed from offices, and the coterie of cronies and sycophants that increasingly surrounded him seems to have disappeared from view.In this section On and on it goes Instant war Burundi on the brink of peace?
