portrait
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We see Hans Holbein the Elder’s magnificent silverpoint portrait of Mathes Roriczer, drawn about 1490.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
The obverse or heads side of the 50p features the official coin portrait of King Charles III.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Bazuin: We wanted to disrupt expectations audiences might have and to make it a more human portrait.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
At the entrance of a sprawling military encampment some 100 kilometres away from Derna, a towering portrait of Haftar overlooked the scene.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
In the newspaper L’Intransigeant, the modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire praised the portrait: “The Mona Lisa was so beautiful that her perfection has come to be taken for granted.”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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