PORTRAITS OF POWER
CONSTRUCTIONS AND DECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE IMAGE OF AUCTORITAS

Tiziano Vecellio, "Carlos V na Batalha de Mühlberg" (1548)

Diego Velásquez, "Filipe IV" (c. 1631-32)

Anton Van Dyck, "Retrato de Carlos I" (1636)

Diego Velásquez, "Retrato de Inocêncio X" (1650)

Hyacinthe Rigaud, "Retrato de Luís XIV" (1701)

Louis Tocqué, "Maria Leczinska" (1740)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, "Madame de Pompadour" (1755)

Ingres, "Napoleão I no Trono Imperial" (1806)

Francis Bacon, "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" (1953)

Manny Warman, "Presidential Likeness" (1964)

Krzysztof Bednarski, "Total Portrait of Marx" (1978)

Júlio Pomar, Retrato do Presidente Mário Soares (1992) http://www.museu.presidencia.pt/expo_detail.php?id=5&ID=92

Paula Rego, Retrato do Presidente Jorge Sampaio (2005) http://www.museu.presidencia.pt/expo_detail.php?id=5&ID=303

David Bailey, "Isabel II" (2014)

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"At Moscow's exhibition centre visitors expect to see statues and paintings. Or even a life-size statue of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. But not one that breathes. Displayed in a dark room meant to replicate Lenin's famous Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square, the mildly animated model made of wax is causing quite a stir among visitors."
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/02/27/breathing-lenin-exhibit-causes-a-stir?videoId=241369335