Example sentences for: portraits

How can you use “portraits” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From the king’s apartments you will enter the Great Gallery, a long room that is home to 89 portraits of Scottish rules dating back to antiquity.

  • As you walk through the early rooms of the sumptuous exhibition of Renoir portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago, the effect of following Renoir's career is like that of traveling through a tunnel.

  • Today it is brimming with fine period furnishings, although only the portraits are original to the house.

  • Although its collection was depleted both by Hitler’s assault on Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) and the ravages of war, the museum, which has undergone extensive renovations, has some interesting German works of the 19th and 20th centuries: Blechen, Waldmüller, Slevogt, Liebermann (The Flax Workers and portraits of Wilhelm von Bode and Richard Strauss).

  • A whole poetry of the ordinary came out of such images, from Walker Evans' frontal portraits of sharecroppers' beds to Jasper Johns' deadpan brace of ale cans.


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