5 sentences with 'portraits'
Example sentences and phrases with the word portraits and other words derived from it.
• « The greatest Austrian expressionist was Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918), who created beautiful but disturbing and often highly erotic portraits, the most famous of which became one of the quintessential bedroom decorations of collegiate America - The Kiss. »
• « Pop art was about taking images from popular culture - in Warhol's case, everything from portraits of Marilyn Monroe to the Campbell's soup can - and turning them into "fine art". »
• « A precursor of the method, Professor Gerasimov, had already reconstructed the features of characters through portraits. He did so with Dostoevsky's mother and Ivan the Terrible. »
• « A special case is that of Frederick Schiller, of whom there were masks taken at the time of his death (1805) and portraits, but his skeleton was not known. This method made it possible to identify the remains of the poet. »
• « The saying "to shine by its absence" takes us back to Roman times. One of their customs was to display, at funerals, the portraits of all the ancestors and relatives of the deceased. »