Ms. Schwartz's model is formally posed, but many of the livelier works show humans in everyday or candid situations.

It was quite unlike most of the formally posed pictures, in which one ancestor or another glared out of their frames as though their collars were choking them.

The artistic ferment of the late sixth century led in sculpture directly to the abandonment of the central archaic convention, the formally posed frontal statue in traditional stance; a change which inaugurated the Greek classical style and set the course for European art.

Some images, like "I Can Fly," of a perky little boy riding a toy biplane, and her well-known shot of the Montauk lighthouse reflected in a child's eye, are formally posed or staged.

Though it was his friend's voice that answered the formally posed question, Karel barely recognized it.

Mr. Karsh was a master of the formally posed, carefully lighted studio portrait.

Up to about 1730 family portraits are formally posed groups; increasingly, however, after 1730 children are shown playing or reading or sketching or fishing or picnicking with their parents - family scenes of mutual pleasure and enjoyment, and ones which the parents wanted recorded.

The same is true of Mr. Emanuel's "Reclining Lady," a large oil on paper, which uses simplified forms and textured paint to impart an archaic, timeless quality to the formally posed figure.

Hansard also publishes written answers made by Government ministers in response to questions formally posed by members.