CAE - Brief Overview of Portraits Through History (Lesson)

Brief Overview of Portraits Through History

Throughout art history, portraiture has been one of the most important commissions a painter could have. The history of portraiture has been the visual history for centuries before the invention of photography. With the invention of photography, the focus of portraiture had to shift as well. Painters created new meanings with portraiture through color and media.

Please watch the presentation below to learn more about the history of portraiture. Be sure your volume is turned on!

From this brief overview of portraiture, you will select one artist to create an artist biography page in your journal similar to the page you created in the previous module.

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