Portraits
Portrait (from the old word portraire - “to reproduce something devil in devil.” Another interpretation lies in the outdated word “parsuna” - from Latin persona - “personality; person”) - an image of a person or a group of people that exist or existed in reality. The Frenchman André Félibien (1619 - 1695), the official court historian of King Louis XIV, was the first to suggest that the word “portrait” be used to describe exclusively “human beings”, thereby separating humans from the animal and plant worlds.
