Portraiture vs Resemblance - What's the difference?
portraiture | resemblance | Related terms |
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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The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
Portraiture is a related term of resemblance.
As a verb portraiture
is .As a noun resemblance is
the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.portraiture
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Noun
(portraitures)- For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
resemblance
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Alternative forms
* resemblaunceNoun
(en noun)- Words' and '''things''' were united in their ''''''resemblance''''''. Renaissance man thought in terms of '''similitudes''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. There were four ranges of '''resemblance'''.
'''Aemulation''' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
'''Convenientia''' connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.
'''Analogy''': a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations.
'''Sympathy''' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.