That The Picture Heralds: The use of lines is gaining importance for the arrangement of the picture, and this is what heralds his next period.
In his self-portrait of spring 1907 (p. 32), painted shortly afterwards, lines have become the dominating structural device. Facial features are marked by broad, fast strokes of the brush, which also delineate the other areas in the picture.
PURSUIVANT, pur'swi-vant, a title used in the heraldry of England and Scotland, derived from the Latin word proscqui, to follow. Pursuivants rank below the heralds and kings-of-arms. In the English Heralds' College there are four pursuivants, namely Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Rouge Dragon, and Portcullis; the Scottish pursuivants, three in number, are Carrick, March, and Unicorn.
PURUS RIVER, poo-roos', an affluent of the Amazon, which rises in the east of Peru and enters into Brazil, following a northeastward course of about 2,100 miles, and joins the Amazon about 100 miles above the latter's confluence with the Negro.
Portraits. In their range, splendor, and variety, as well as in their sympathy to the sitter, Goya's portraits are perhaps the most important part of his painted work. In such early examples as the likenesses of Don Sebastian Martinez and of Don Bernardo de Iriarte (both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), the elegance of pose and the richness of costume proclaim them truly of the 18th century portrait tradition. On the other hand, Goya's friend, the architect Don Tibnrcio Perez (Metropolitan Museum, New York), is presented in 1820 without a coat and in a pose of such casual veracity that the picture heralds in a startling way most of the developments of 19th century portraiture.
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