Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by subject type]
7. figures (representations)
8. [figures by portion represented]
9. heads (representations)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Visual Works
5. visual works
6. visual works by subject type
7. portraits

Anotations

Scope note:

Heads of figures, painted in the manner of portraits but representing types or historical figures; a compromise between portraiture and history painting; often focusing on the psychological state of the sitter. The genre was developed by Rembrandt and others in 17th-century Netherlands.