Representation vs Portraiture - What's the difference?
representation | portraiture | Synonyms |
That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d 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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As nouns the difference between representation and portraiture
is that representation is that which represents another while portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.representation
English
(wikipedia representation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
External links
* *portraiture
English
Noun
(portraitures)- For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.