From this collection of portraits could I finally unravel the mystery of his existence?

究竟从这一群肖像画中，我可能找出生平的秘密来吗？

10 Second Trivia. Which of these landmarks in Washington, D.C. was completed in 1935? Washington Monument, Supreme Court Building, Lincoln Memorial or National Portrait Gallery.

10秒钟琐事。以下哪个华盛顿的地标建筑是1935年建成的？华盛顿纪念塔、最高法院建筑、林肯纪念堂和国家肖像画廊。

What! ? It's you got me that that portrait and I live in Manhattan.

什么 你给了我那幅肖像画 我住在曼哈顿。

So good is the portrait that one imagines the subject sat for it.

这张肖像画惟妙惟肖，会让想象到画中就坐在那里让给画像。

Thousands of people have walked these halls and gazed at the artwork; they've examined the portraits of Washington, Lincoln, and Kennedy; they've imagined the history that's unfolded here.

上经走过这些大厅并欣赏艺术品；们细看过华盛顿、林肯、和肯尼迪的肖像画；们想像过在这里展开的历史。

In 1766, he went to London to study painting with Benjamin West whilst, there he painted this portrait in 1768, see slide 1, pit as a Roman senator, notice how elaborately symbolical this portrait is.

1766年，去伦敦和本杰明·一起学习绘画，1768年在那里画了这幅肖像画，看到第一张幻灯片，以罗马参议员的身份参加竞选，注意这幅画是多么的有象征意义。

Gloomy as he looked in portraits, the Frenchman Charles Fourier concentrated on fun.

法国查尔傅里叶关注于这其中的乐趣，尽管在肖像画里看起来很忧伤。

He became an insightful and sought-after portraitist.

成为了一名有洞察力且受欢迎的肖像画家。

He layers his portraits from lighter to darker.

的肖像画从浅到暗层次分明。

We curiously have this collection of double portraits.

出于好奇，我们收藏了这套双肖像画。

Of a 16th century portrait by Gainsborough or Van Dyke.

16世纪时的帆布肖像画里跳出来的似的。

This is my portrait of George Washington.

这个是我对乔治·华盛顿的肖像画。

I'm thinking it's narrowed it down to many hundreds of portraits.

我在想，这经把范围缩小到几百幅肖像画了。

There's only sort of two half-finished portraits of me.

所以我的肖像画都只有一些半成品。

So, that was you who painted that portrait in the living room, too?

这么说，起居室里那副肖像画也是你画的？

Ortega’s cheerful landscapes are the polar opposites of Miller’s dark, troubled portraits.

【polar】奥尔加明快的风景画同米勒阴郁的肖像画截然相反。

So they put their things away and headed out of the portrait hole, glad not to meet nobody on their way to the front doors, as they weren't entirely sure they were supposed to be out.

于是们收拾好东西，走出肖像画上的洞，高兴的是一路上没有遇到任何就走到了大门口，们拿不准应不应该出去。

But the Mona Lisa — said by the Louvre to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant — and additional works by Leonardo still have other secrets to tell.

但卢浮宫称《蒙娜丽莎》是丽莎·格拉迪尼的肖像画，她是一位佛罗伦萨丝绸商的妻子，此外，莱昂纳多的其作品同样存在其秘密可言。

He understood this presented a challenge for painters, and so he set out to make his portraits " boldly strange" , argues Carol Armstrong, an art historian.

美术史家卡罗·阿姆朗认为，马内深知摄影给画家带来了挑战，于是打算创作出“大胆而新奇”的肖像画。

The portraits on either side of the fighters were crammed with figures screaming advice and encouragement, while Death Eaters, both masked and unmasked, dueled students and teachers.

当两个戴了面具的食死徒与没戴面具的教师和学生决斗时，不管哪一边的战士旁的肖像画里都挤满了，尖叫着出主意和给予鼓励。