portraiture

portraiture
    n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn:
         {portrayal}, {portraiture}, {portrait}]
    2: the activity of making portraits
    

Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
   1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that
      which is copied from some example or model.
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            For, by the image of my cause, I see
            The portraiture of his.               --Shak.
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            Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
            the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
                                                  --Bacon.
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   2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
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Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
   To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
   [R.] --Shaftesbury.
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95 Moby Thesaurus words for "portraiture":
      acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog,
      cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering,
      characterization, chart, choreography, coloring,
      conventional representation, dance notation, delineation,
      demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details,
      diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting,
      evocation, exemplification, figuration, finger painting,
      flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache,
      graphic account, grisaille, head, hieroglyphic, iconography,
      ideogram, illumination, illustration, image, imagery, imaging,
      impasto, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram,
      logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, mural painting,
      musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting,
      particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization,
      plan, portrait, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement,
      presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering,
      rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette,
      sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush,
      vignette, vivid description, wash, wash drawing, word painting,
      writing