English-Italian translations for portrait

• ritratto
  All'aeroporto ho notato che in ogni locale era appeso un ritratto del presidente siriano Hafez al-Assad e del figlio tragicamente scomparso. It struck me in the airport that every hall had a portrait of the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his dead son.
  Signor Presidente, la settimana scorsa il settimanale tedesco Der Spiegel ha pubblicato un suo ritratto intitolandolo "L'Onnipresidente”. Mr President, last week the German weekly newspaper Der Spiegel published a portrait of you entitled 'The Omnipresident'.
  In realtà, un enorme ritratto di Mao Tse-tung, il più grande assassino di massa del ventesimo secolo, è ancora in bella mostra in piazza Tienanmen. In fact, a huge portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, the biggest mass murderer of the 20th century, is still on display on Tiananmen Square.
• ritrattista

Definition of portrait

• A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders
• An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc
• A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides
• To portray; to draw
• Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal

Examples

• The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
• a portrait bust; a portrait statue

Related words

• self-portrait
• portraitist
• portrait photography
• family portrait
• role portrait
• ancestral portrait
• self portrait
• mummy portraits