THE ART OF JOSE IBAY: GETTING ACCUSTOMED TO YOUR FACE THE ART OF PORTRAITURE IS ABSOLUTELY ANCIENT, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART.

The Manila Times | August 21, 2006| | Copyright

The art of portraiture is absolutely ancient, going all the way back to the history of western art. From the start of the Egyptian and Greek civilization, the practice of capturing the likeness of an individual can be seen in the funerary representation of pharaohs. Extant examples of the earliest Greek portrait busts abound; so do the Roman portrait images of emperors. The death mask itself is form of portraiture. Stone tombs (sarcophagi) featured the likeness of the deceased. That should tell us something about the essential role of portraiture. Man's need to be immortalized-in paint, in ...

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