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Portrait Section info below Portrait - For hundreds of years, portrait painting has introduced viewers to both the likenesses and the life stories of notable individuals. While many artists would prefer to paint landscapes, portraiture has often been the source of artists' livelihood. The Renaissance produced some of the most exquisite portraits in history, but we need not dwell strictly on the past. Today's contemporary artists continue to create remarkable studies of people in a wide variety of settings. Even without the dramatic, flowing fabrics of earlier eras,