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John T. Tunney
John Thomas Tunney (1870–1929) was a naturalist and collector of animal specimens, active in the west and north of Australia. Biography Tunney was born 11 October 1870 in Kojonup, Western Australia and educated in Albany, Western Australia, Albany. His mother and father were Mary and James Tunney. He worked for the Post Office as a messenger, in a construction gang, and joined survey parties operating in remote regions of the state. He died near Kojonup on 10 June 1929. Before his death, Tunney was reported to have requested that his family destroy his diaries and that was his wish was fulfilled, however, the letters between Tunney and the museum's director allow some insights into his field work. Works Tunney began collecting for the Western Australian Museum in 1895 and continued for almost twenty years. He had been given a letter of reference from the cousin of the museum's director, Bernard Henry Woodward, Bernard Woodward, a geologist who he had met while surveying. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the history of art. Historical portraitur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
