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Of the two basic functions of portraiture, to limn an individual likeness or identify a type within the social fabric, this study is concerned with type.1 Records of the individual likenesses of architects, head or head-and-shoulder images, including sculpted busts, occur in Western art into the pre...

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Published in:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 2013-07, Vol.103 (4), p.IX
Main Author: O'Gorman, James F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architects
Architecture
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Summary:Of the two basic functions of portraiture, to limn an individual likeness or identify a type within the social fabric, this study is concerned with type.1 Records of the individual likenesses of architects, head or head-and-shoulder images, including sculpted busts, occur in Western art into the present, and nineteenth-century America is no exception.
ISSN:0065-9746
2325-9264