He also did vigorous portraits of his great Russian contemporaries, such as Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Glinka, and Modest Mussorgsky.
Whether her black-and-white pictures are arresting geometric studies, lyrical landscapes, vigorous portraits of children at play or elegiac vignettes of urban life, they are anchored in the humanist tradition that is the Magnum stock in trade.
Mr. Smith's vigorous, gregarious portrait winningly reminds us of Roosevelt's insatiable intellectual hunger and unrelenting optimism.
For instance, John Carey's newly published life of William Golding displays a vigorous colour portrait and some bold typography to advertise its subject.
Unlike the Moses in the Bible, who carried modesty to a fault and shunned introspection, Mr. Cohen's Moses has a lawyer's analytical turn of mind and a way of posing difficult questions -- qualities well-served by the vigorous cover portrait, circa 1600, by the Italian master Guido Reni.
There are vigorous mini-portraits of archetypal 20th-century snobs, such as the diarist James Lee-Milne and the novelist Anthony Powell.
This played its part in the transaction concluded at Didier Aaron of Paris over a vigorous self-portrait painted by the academic Meissonnier, probably in the 1870s.
Piero is believed to have slipped several vigorous self-portraits into his works, one as an awe-struck worshiper under the protective cloak of the towering Madonna in his "Misericordia Altarpiece" and another as a sleeping Roman soldier in "The Resurrection of Christ," both on view in Sansepolcro.
(Ben Brantley) ★ 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Douglas Hodge (last seen in a dress in "La Cage aux Folles") provides an oxygenating blast of freshness in the title role of Edmond Rostand's beloved chestnut, creating a vigorous and original portrait of the swashbuckling, big-beaked poet.
(Brantley) ★ 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Douglas Hodge (last seen in a dress in "La Cage aux Folles") provides an oxygenating blast of freshness in the title role of Edmond Rostand's beloved chestnut, creating a vigorous and original portrait of the swashbuckling, big-beaked poet.
