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Portraiture vs Landscape - What's the difference?

portraiture | landscape |

As nouns the difference between portraiture and landscape

is that portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model while landscape is a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

As a verb landscape is

create or maintain a landscape.

portraiture

English

Noun

(portraitures)
  • A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
  • * Shakespeare
  • For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
  • The art of painting or photographing portraits.
  • A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
  • ----

    landscape

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape ")
  • (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
  • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    Antonyms

    * (printing mode) portrait

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * landscape gardener * landscape gardening * -scape

    Verb

    (landscap)
  • Create or maintain a landscape.
  • See also

    * dreamscape * moonscape * seascape