But what is clear is that this was a person that this civilization wanted to represent through art. The portrait could also be showing us how hard this world might have been so long ago. When the ...

A substantial exhibition of the works of Thom Roberts has opened at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Since time immemorial, humans have used art ... portraits is ‘The Desperate Man’ by Gustave Courbet. Courbet paints himself as a young man, his eyes wide in surprise, and his hands on his head.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... portraits of women. “My eye is always drawn first to the hairstyle of the sitter. What color is her hair? Is her hair pinned close to the head?