Because I feel like a portrait is an answer to a question which is, "What was this person like?"(因为我觉得肖像是这样一个问题的答案,那就是“这个人是什么样的?”)
They said the paint used was also characteristic of that period, as was the intricate and costly style of the lace ruff worn by the man in the portrait.(他们说,像肖像画里男人所穿戴的复杂而又昂贵的蕾丝飞边那样,所用的颜料也具有那个时期的特征。)
Still, there were other ways of comporting the body that did not become winning portrait formulas.(不过,还有其他的身体运动方式没有成为成功的肖像公式。)
Statement and portrait together form a single image of a thinker.(陈述和肖像一起构成了一位思想家的独有形象。)
Art photography kind of took its place, so you can imagine that a portrait artist, would have had a hard time finding acceptance.(艺术摄影取代了它的位置,所以你可以想到,一个肖像艺术家会变得很难被接受。)
Today, she is still considered one of the greatest portrait painters of her time, male or female.(时至今日,她仍然被认为是那个时代最伟大的肖像画家之一,不管是男性画家还是女性画家。)
Photography did indeed make certain kinds of painting obsolete — the daguerreotype virtually did away with the portrait miniature.(摄影确实使某些种类的绘画过时了——银版照相几乎使微型肖像消失了。)
As the painting's biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, "In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait."(正如这幅画的传记作者唐纳德·沙逊枯燥无味地指出,“实际上,这种效果可以从任何一幅肖像画中获得。”)
I was wondering if that was unusual to have a portrait artist who is a woman become so well-known and successful in the 19th century.(我想知道女性肖像画家在19世纪如此出名和成功,是否是很不寻常的。)
One day, a rich man asked him to paint a portrait for him and promised to pay him 10,000 dollars.(一天,一个富人请他为他画一幅肖像画,并答应付给他一万美元。)