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![Painting, Piano Bar, Gérard Pamboujian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1745706_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'empire des sens, Gérard Pamboujian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744950_1_grid.jpg)
L'empire des sens
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Turquoise glance, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738935_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pink glance, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738926_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Woman. Be together. 3, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738704_1_grid.jpg)
Woman. Be together. 3
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 60 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Three sisters. Faith, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1738677_1_grid.jpg)
Three sisters. Faith
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
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![Painting, Three sisters. Hope, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731483_1_grid.jpg)
Three sisters. Hope
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Stars. Diptych, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731411_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The girl in the window, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731405_1_grid.jpg)
The girl in the window
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Day and night, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730226_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman and flower. Adonis, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730223_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Adonis
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Woman and flower. Primrose, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730217_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Primrose
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Woman and flower. Anemone, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730208_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Anemone
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Woman and flower. Gazania, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730193_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Gazania
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Woman and flower. Primrose, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730190_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Primrose
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Woman and flower. Anemone, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730187_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Anemone
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
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![Painting, Drunken Stories, Baurjan Aralov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1729239_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman and flower. Gazania, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726611_1_grid.jpg)
Woman and flower. Gazania
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,407
![Painting, Gold. Orchid. Synadena, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726608_1_grid.jpg)
Gold. Orchid. Synadena
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Gold. Orchid. Doritis, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726605_1_grid.jpg)
Gold. Orchid. Doritis
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Three sisters. Faith, Hope, Love. Birds, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721388_1_grid.jpg)
Three sisters. Faith, Hope, Love. Birds
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, With Faith, Hope and Love for Ukraine, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721385_1_grid.jpg)
With Faith, Hope and Love for Ukraine
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,172
![Painting, Red bird. Flower of hope, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721376_1_grid.jpg)
Red bird. Flower of hope
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,407
![Painting, In secret. Bird. 3, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721373_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In secret. Bird. 2, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721367_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In secret. Bird. 1, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721361_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, In search of a life path. Fish, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1720440_1_grid.jpg)
In search of a life path. Fish
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,172
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![Painting, Californian Girl on the Beach, Joanna Glazer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692681_1_grid.jpg)
Californian Girl on the Beach
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$548
![Painting, Portée Vents et Marées, Laurence Forbin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684743_1_grid.jpg)
Portée Vents et Marées
Laurence Forbin
Painting - 61 x 46 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,118
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![Painting, Alexa, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1654548_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Julia, Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649955_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On the shore of summer. Triptych., Ljubow Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649820_1_grid.jpg)
On the shore of summer. Triptych.
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,110
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![Painting, Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so, Joanna Glazer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1602300_1_grid.jpg)
Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$548
![Painting, Over the Rainbow, and a little geisha on friend's postcard, Joanna Glazer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1580112_1_grid.jpg)
Over the Rainbow, and a little geisha on friend's postcard
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$548
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![Painting, Retrato de Raquel / Portrait de Raquel, Gabriel del Paso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468101_1_grid.jpg)
Retrato de Raquel / Portrait de Raquel
Gabriel del Paso
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$615
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Smoke on the water
Marie-Ange Daudé
Painting - 87 x 87 x 4 cm Painting - 34.3 x 34.3 x 1.6 inch
$2,237
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Eve and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$548
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![Painting, The evening breeze blows, Wei-Hong Ma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1179489_1_grid.jpg)
The evening breeze blows
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,901
![Painting, You are my spring, Wei-Hong Ma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1179459_1_grid.jpg)
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Blue Bird of Paradise
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$548
![Painting, Los Angeles skater, Yaroslav Yasenev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1150653_1_grid.jpg)
Los Angeles skater
Yaroslav Yasenev
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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Laure retour de match
Bertrand De Cointet
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$805
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Arlésiennes monochromiques
Juan Benito
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$772
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Lets take the animals into the night
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 inch
$28,400
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Portrait Painting for Sale
Portraiture is one of the most important subjects in painting. The discipline has changed significantly over time and has a fascinating history.
In antiquity, portraits were exclusively reserved for gods and the most influential people in society. Paintings and statues representing the bodies of the deceased were erected to decorate tombs in Egypt. They weren't realistic but rather had a very standardized way of representing each part of the body.
In contrast to the Egyptians, painters and sculptors in Greece, who had a more in depth knowledge of the human anatomy, were more concerned about realism. Many portrait paintings from this period were done on vases and depicted gods and mythological scenes.
In the Middle Ages, most portraits paintings were commissioned and featuring the most important people of the time; they were painted into religious scenes to emphasize their piety and faith, along with their social status. Once these works of art had been painted, they were often donated to churches and monasteries.
The Renaissance marked a renewal for the arts and portrait painting was no exception. At the beginning of this period, artists were unconcerned about lifelike, realistic work. Sitters or the subjects represented were identifiable through the use of symbolic objects and the inclusion of their name.
Giotto revolutionized portraiture by imitating sculpture. He began to paint shadows, the subjects' expressions, effects of depth and began to use foreshortening. His knowledge soon began to spread.
Brunelleschi then introduced the idea of perspective in architecture, a concept which Masaccio adapted to painting. Italy became the center of portrait painting and the most important Italian families (including the Médici family) commissioned artwork by the best painters. Competition between these painters led them to innovate and led them to produce some of the greatest artworks in history. The most famous is undoubtedly the Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci.
In Northern Europe during the 16th century, Flemish art was restricted by iconoclasm during the Reformation, a period during the depiction of religious figures was banned. Artists turned to courtly art which was particularly popular during the following centuries. A century earlier, Flemish art had marked a turning point with Jan Van Eyck, the inventor of oil painting (the preferred painting technique of Renaissance painters) and master of detailed realism, who influenced an entire generation of Flemish painters.
Over the following centuries, portrait painting continued to be an art form for the elite of society, but painters grew increasingly concerned about depicting realistic figures and communicating the sitter's inner world and emotions. The 20th century saw a growing trend: subjects were not painted to look beautiful (sometimes to their great dismay).
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters became less reliant on sculpted models and sculpture's influence. They left their studios and painted portraits outside, “en plein air." They captured the light as they saw it and painted groups of people together rather than in in several stages.
Modern and contemporary art of the 20th century saw anything go when it came to portraits. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud turned traditional techniques and codified rules on their heads and developed their own unique styles.
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A portrait painting is a painted artwork that depicts a person. A portrait painting usually depicts the upper body of a sitter, for example from the shoulders up.
A portrait can be created in various different art styles and forms, including sculpture, painting and drawing.
A portrait can be considered a good work of art for a variety of reasons, including its handling of light, tone and color, its likeness to the person it represents, or its expression of emotion.