The Concept of Portrait Painting and its Applications
The concept of portrait paintings was originated in Egypt. In ancient times, famous personalities and individuals in high positions in society like kings and queens, used to make their portraits in order to preserve for the future generations. As per history, the Italian painting of high Renaissance, and other paintings by renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffael and Tizian, marked the main era of portrait paintings. If we analyze term ' Portrait ' is usually used for paintings which portray the face of a person though many portrait paintings present the complete body of a person too. Basically, Portrait paintings are created to represent the features and characteristics of an individual. The portrait artists try to emphasize the details of the features in the portrait but basing on the demand of the clients sometimes the artists also make some changes in the portrait.In earlier days, getting a hand-painted portrait created by an experienced a