Here is a known three-quarter length portrait: Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Raphael (1507). Though, such portraits are less popular due its “incomplete” depiction of the person.
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It seems more like a combination of full length and half-length portraits, including person’s pose and the surrounding context. That’s the simple and short definition and there isn’t much left to know about as the use of such portraits overlaps with full length and half-length portraits. Three-quarter length portraits depicts the person as far as to their knees. Self-explaining terms doesn’t leave much to explain. That’s why, this type is more popular to capture the person’s profile as well as temperament on the canvas. It emphasize on the person that the context or the surround. You can see, that half-length portraits focuses on the person himself/herself more than the full-length portraits. Only the upper body part is depicted, above waist only. Here is a good example of Half-length portraits: Young Beauty with Bouquet by Fritz Zuber-Buhler. Mona Lisa is the best example of the half Length portrait. Half Length portraits focuses on the person’s facial expression and limiting the viewer’s focus at guessing the temperament of the portrayed person.įrom the renaissance era, half-length portraits are popular.
Artists generally doesn’t add up much of the background imaginary, surrounding or context leaving the background with flat black or of such monochromatic theme. It is the most popular and conventional portrait style in which the person could be sitting or standing. Half-length portraits displays the upper body – up from the waist. It is a character from the poems of great Greek poet Soppho and Latin poet Catullus.Ĭlick on the link to see our gallery of full length portraits. Thus, we can safely say that full length portraits are used to signify the person’s importance in the society or in any other way.Įxample of full length portrait shown here is titled as “Lesbia” made by John Reinhard Weguelin. In men’s case, full length portraits are generally used when the man has some significant importance or to convey special quirks or demeanor of the man as seen in Leo Tolstoy’s portrait by Russian artist Ilya Repin. The full body, being the central subject gets special attention of the viewer and that’s why, mostly, artists uses Full length portraits in cases of beautiful women to replicate their feminine beauty on the canvas. Different standing postures demonstrated their significant ranks in the social hierarchy in the time when higher position in society was way more important than we can think, today. Thus, full length portraits are more colorful, varied and rich of elements than the conventional portraits.įull Length portraits were popular during 17 th and 18 th century in European aristocratic circles. Thus, it gives some contextual significance to the portrait. Such portrait is generally used when the artist also wants to include the background or surround of the person in the picture.
Full length portraits depicts the person’s full body – head to toe – in the frame.
The list includes the types of portraits according to different contexts. Listed types are according to the depictions and not by the canvas sizes. To differentiate and understand the varity of portraits, down here we have gathered all the major possible types of portrait painting from the renaissance era to the modern world. and decides what type of setting, canvas size, theme, color-pallet and type of depiction should be used for the most desired portrayal. Each and every setting, size are aimed for a predefined effect. According to the person or a group of people intended to be portrayed, the painter evaluates the needs by the person/group’s social importance, visual features, etc. These variety of portraits aren’t just random compositions of people’s profile. There are portraits which includes people with different angles, numbers and settings. If you have seen our rich gallery of portrait paintings, you might have seen many different types of portraits.
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