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Abstract

During the last decades, there have been a lot of discussions about the dominant role that the image has played on our contemporary society. The twentieth century was described by authors and experts as the century of the image, or even more precisely, as the image society. During this current century, our civilization will probably continue to honour this adjective. Portrait is no more a simple category in art history, but a compulsive obsession of contemporary men. There are many explanations for this, but all of them somehow show a lack of confidence of human being in its own memory; and it is precisely such memory that men pretends to preserve by appearing in the images that they create.