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Engaging power of baroque portraits
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More than anywhere else in Europe, the portrait artist has earned
a fair living in this country and has done so for 400 years. Even
today almost everyone displays portraits of friends and family at
home, though these would be photographs now, rather than paintings.
We are obsessed with portraits and have a National Portrait Gallery
where works by leading artists hang, whether resident in this
country or not.
The portrait was born during the Renaissance, showing man's
understanding of the universe and his position therein. He was above
all beasts, for he had a soul and they do not, but below ...
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