Hao Liang: Portraits and Wonders

Portraiture constituted an important area within Cranach’s oeuvre as it was part of his repertoire from the outset of his career, increasing in terms of number of works from the ti...

During the 16th century portraiture was the leading genre in England and almost the only one to which artists could devote themselves following the events of the early 1530s, the c...

Portraiture occupies a significant position within Tintoretto’s oeuvre along with other genres, of which the most notable was religious painting. In the 1540s the artist execu...

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the photograph rapidly replaced the painted portrait as the public’s preferred medium for recording an accurate individual likene...