Portraiture vs Exhibition - What's the difference?
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A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
* Shakespeare
The art of painting or photographing portraits.
A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
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An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
A large scale public showing of objects or products.
(UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
As nouns the difference between portraiture and exhibition
is that portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.portraiture
English
Noun
(portraitures)- For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
exhibition
English
(wikipedia exhibition)Noun
(en noun)- There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
- a boat exhibition
- He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.