White House moves portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to storage room…
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Citizen Free Press ^
| 7/17/2020 | Kane
Portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to rarely used room The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer of the White House within the last week, aides told CNN, and replaced by those of two Republican
presidents who served more than a century ago. The Clinton and Bush portraits were moved into the Old Family Dining Room, a small, rarely used room that is not seen by most visitors. Photographs of the new portrait locations were reviewed by CNN, showing the Clinton and Bush...
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White House portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush moved from prominent space to rarely used room
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CNN ^
| July 17, 2020 | Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak,
WASHINGTON (CNN) The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer of the White House within the last week, aides told CNN, and replaced by those of two Republican presidents who served more than a century ago. White
House tradition calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be given the most prominent placement, in the entrance of the executive mansion, visible to guests during official events. That was the case through at least July 8, when President Donald Trump welcomed Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The two...
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Speaker Pelosi Orders 4 Portraits of Former Democratic Speakers Removed From U.S. Capitol
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Townhall ^
| 06/18/2020 | Bronson Stocking
On Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal from the Capitol Building of four portraits of former Democratic House speakers who had ties to the Confederacy. Robert Hunter of Virginia, James Orr of South Carolina, Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp of Georgia. The removal of the portraits is the
latest meaningless gesture from the speaker and Democrats following the death of George Floyd. Pelosi sent a letter to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson ordering the removal of the four portraits in observance of Juneteenth, an unofficial holiday commemorating the Republican's emancipation of the last slaves in the Confederacy....
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Pelosi orders removal of portraits of ex-House speakers who served in Confederacy
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Fox News ^
| June 18, 2020 | Marisa Schultz
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday ordered the removal of portraits in the Capitol of previous House speakers who served in the Confederacy as part of an effort to "appropriately observe Juneteenth" on Friday. Pelosi said she discovered the four portraits as she was taking inventory in the Capitol of Confederate statues, which
she is also trying to remove but can't do unilaterally. "Tomorrow, Juneteenth, the clerk will oversee the removal of those Confederate speakers from the House," Pelosi announced at a press conference at the Capitol. "There's no room in the hallowed halls of this democracy, this temple of democracy,...
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American Daguerreotype Portraits of Men From the 1840's and 1850's
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YouTube ^
| 09-23-2017 | Chubachus
Random daguerreotype photos of men from the 1840's and 50's. A
window into our past.
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George Romney (1734-1802) - Portraits - Beethoven - Berliner Philharmoniker - Karajan
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YouTube ^
| 4 March 2020 | MVD
George Romney was a British portrait artist (1734-1802). The
music is Beethoven's Symphony 2, D-major, Opus-36, 2nd movement, Larghetto. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, Karajan conducting. Roughly chronological.
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Bernie Sanders Takes Quiet Moment To Seek Advice From Portraits Of His Favorite Dictators (SATIRE)
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The Babylon Bee satire site ^
| February 25th, 2020 | The Babylon Bee
NORTH HERO, VT—After another long few weeks out on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders finally got a few minutes to take a break at one of his three homes. This
particular home, his quaint, $600,000 lakeside mansion, has one of Sanders' favorite rooms in all of his homes: a "Hall of Dictators," where he hangs portraits of his favorite totalitarian despots. "Hello there, fellas," Sanders said as he closed the door behind him. "I hope I'm doin' you proud, guys." Sanders walked up to one portrait and began to caress the face of Fidel Castro. "Fidel, I'm sorry...
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The thoughtful grace of Kate Middleton’s Holocaust survivor portraits
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Forward.com ^
| Jan 2020 | Irene Connelly
A U.K. exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz includes works by an artist more often seen in front of the camera than behind it: Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and an avid amateur photographer. Middleton
contributed two portraits to the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren... In a statement, Middleton said that she wanted to emulate Anne Frank’s “sensitive and intimate” depiction of the Holocaust. But even more visible in her portraits is the influence of the non-Jewish source from whom she took inspiration: the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes...
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American Daguerreotype Portraits From the 1840's
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YouTube ^
| 03-19-2016 | Chubachus
Faces from the land of long ago.
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Xi Jinping Portraits Replace Catholic Symbols in Churches [China]
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Bitter Winter ^
| 11/25/19 | Tang Zhe
Places of worship refusing to be controlled by the state are being shut down, while government-run churches are used to worship the Chinese Communist Party.A Catholic Church in Ji’an, a prefecture-level city in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, was built this year at the cost of more than one million RMB (over
$ 140,000), which had been raised by believers. It was named “The True and Original Source of the Universe", a reference to the name inscribed in 1711 on a plaque the Kangxi Emperor (Xuanje, 1654–1722) donated to a Catholic church in Beijing. Not long after it opened its...
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Four Portraits of the Thankful Redeemed
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Grace To You ^
| 11/27/19 | John MacArthur
Well, let’s open our Bibles back to Psalm 107. I
wanted to redirect our thoughts away from our ongoing study of 2 Corinthians, because this is such a special weekend as we celebrate our time of thanksgiving, and I wanted to turn to the Word of God this morning and to a Psalm that is notably a Psalm summoning us to thankfulness. This is such a Psalm. Now this Psalm has a very special place in my heart for a very interesting reason. One Sunday not too many years ago I read this Psalm as I did this morning. I...
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Law students at Washington & Lee University campaign to have portraits of GW and Lee removed [tr]
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UK Daily Mail ^
| November 22, 2019 | Lauren Edmonds
Several students at a Virginia law school are asking the administration to remove portraits of 'controversial' figures, George Washington and Robert E. Lee, from their graduation diplomas to be more inclusive. Current
students, some alumni and staff at the Washington & Lee University School of Law are circulating a petition to allow graduates the option of omitting the university's namesakes. The petition's statement reads: 'We, the undersigned, call on the administration of Washington and Lee University and President William Dudley to provide students with the option of removing the portraits of namesakes Robert E. Lee and George Washington from their...
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Turn Selfies into Classic Portraits
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MIT Technology Review ^
| 7/23/19 | Charlotte Jee
The tool lets users upload their photos, then view a classical-style faux watercolor, oil, or ink portrait based on the photo a few seconds later. Each
one is unique. The tool’s creators at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab used generative adversarial network (GAN) models, a popular AI technique. It involves getting two neural networks to duel each other to produce an acceptable outcome: a generator, which looks at examples and tries to mimic them, and a discriminator, which judges if they are real by comparing them with the same training examples. In this case, they used 45,000 portrait images to...
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1519-2019: Art Through Time - 500 Years of Portraits
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YouTube ^
| 07-20-2019 | Guy Jones
Compilation of portrait paintings spanning 500 years set to classical music of each era. Two
paintings per decade.
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Hillary Clinton poses for Pride Portraits in Houston
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Chron ^
| 5/25/19 | Joey Guerra
Hillary Clinton was in Houston Friday to speak at a fundraiser. But
she also took time to strike a pose. The former presidential candidate sat down to be photographed for Pride Portraits, a Houston-based campaign meant to fully represent the LGBTQI community and its allies. **SNIP** "Hillary Clinton entered the room with that powerful, winning smile and thanked me for the opportunity to be a part of the campaign. I let her know why today was so important to not only me and the campaign but thousands of LGBTQIA+ community members," Schell says.
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1 president, 2,922 portraits make up Chicago art exhibit [all Obama]
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Associated Press ^
| April 24, 2019
Rob Pruitt calls it a “monument of a movement.” Visitors
to the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago will see 2,922 portraits of former President Barack Obama. “The Obama Paintings” is Rebuild Foundation’s newest exhibit. […] The New York artist tells the Chicago Tribune that people assume he’s obsessed with the 44th president. He says Obama is simply “the first politician I felt a connection with.” …
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Harvard University Will Remove Portraits of Former President to Make Students Happy
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Breitbart ^
| 03/27/2019 | Alana Mastrangelo
Harvard University plans to remove portraits of one of its former university presidents, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, from a building named after him on campus, as two incoming faculty Deans suggest that students should not have to see photos of the former president while they’re “eating Cheerios” in the dining hall. The
Lowell House will no longer be displaying portraits of former Harvard University president Abbott Lawrence Lowell and his wife Anna Parker Lowell by the time the building reopens for the fall 2019 semester, according to the school’s student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.
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First Moroni exhibition in North America features one of the great portraits of the Renaissance
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WaPo ^
| 02-27-2019 | Sebastian Smee
One of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance has traveled from London to New York to take its place in a jewel of an exhibition. What
is this celebrated portrait? It’s not the Mona Lisa, and it’s not Henry VIII. It’s not the portrait of a Roman pope or a Venetian doge. And it’s not by Raphael, Michelangelo or Dürer. It’s of a tailor standing at a table. He holds a pair of glinting black shears in his right hand and the corner of a black cloth, marked with chalk lines, in his left. He’s about to cut the...
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Captivating Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 1
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FlashBAK ^
| 22FEB19 | By Karen Strike
"The most thrilling part of the coloring process is when suddenly the person looks back at you as if he’s alive" - Olga Shirnina “My heart yearned to be there, in the boiling caldron of war, to be baptized in its fire and scorched in its lava” – Maria Bochkareva, commander of
the Russian Women’s death battalion in her 1919 autobiography Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile. Maria Bochkareva Color can bring the past to the present, giving black and white images a spritz of life. We’ve seen color photos of the Russian Empire in Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s...
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Egyptian Fayum Portraits of the Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC
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YouTube ^
Egyptian Fayum Portraits of the Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC. To music from Michael Atherton's album "Ankh - The Sound of Ancient Egypt." The Ptolemaic Kingdom was founded by Ptolemy and ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC. Fayum portraits were painted on wooden panels
and mounted into the bands of cloth of a mummy so that they showed over the face area. They were either done in encaustic (wax) or in tempera. There have been around 900 portraits found, often still retaining their bright colors.
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