portrait gallery
Hall of likenesses
A portrait gallery is a room or building dedicated to displaying portraits—paintings, photographs, or sculptures depicting people.
Many countries maintain national portrait galleries showcasing historical and cultural figures: The National Portrait Gallery houses images of prominent Americans.
The term can also describe any collection of portraits, physical or figurative: Her novel offers a portrait gallery of small-town characters.
- sitterTemporary child caretaker
- sitting roomRoom for relaxing together
- Mona LisaRenaissance portrait, famously inscrutable
- museumPublic exhibit space
- paintingPigment on canvas
likeness · lineage · ancestral home · wall · aristocracy · heritage · grand tour · identity · historical figures · commemoration · photography · realism · impressionism · sculpture · frame · profile · artist · patronage
- art galleriesexhibition hall, exhibition space, white cube, showroom, art museum
- city hallcity hall, town hall, mayor's office, council chamber, council chambers
- grand interiorsballroom, banquet hall, grand staircase, foyer, lobby
- museum thingsart, paintings, sculptures, statues, fossils
- portraitsportraits, headshot, headshots, self-portraits, profile
- castle rooms
representational approach
portrait gallerycontemporary art museum
Institution displaying recent artwork