Princess Silhouette

In art, a silhouette draws a viewer's attention to the outline of an object or person that is important to the artist. This is also called a silhouette. In photography, backlighting is used to emphasize the silhouettes of objects. In image processing, outlines of objects play an essential role in tracking moving objects. In graphic representation, simplified outlines of objects appear in pictograms. The inner contours differentiate the inner space of a larger outer contour of an object or figure. For example, the silhouette of an apple may serve as an outer contour, with a worm drawn inside it in an inner contour. In drawings with pure outer and inner contours, however, there are no hatchings or lines in general to represent the visible volume of the bodies. Therefore, drawings of this kind usually appear relatively flat, although overlaps and differences in size and height (= simple spatial means) can already create a pictorial space.

Prince and princess were the German language terms for non-ruling descendants of certain families (houses) of the high nobility. In Germany, princes and princesses were either descendants of royal houses or members of such ruling or sovereign houses that already held the title of prince at the time of the Holy Roman Empire or rose to princely houses after 1806 (see also differences: gender, house, family).

If the latter were mediatized, princely houses, their descendants usually held the title of count or countess. The first-born prince was called hereditary prince, in ruling imperial and royal houses crown prince (compare primogeniture). Old France granted the title of prince to the highest nobility without distinction, but placed at its head the "princes by blood" (princes de sang royal) or the agnates of the royal house.

The wife of the prince, according to her status, received the title of "princess" upon marriage and was treated accordingly to her husband in the event of inheritance. For presumptive heirs to the throne there were special titles according to their importance: Crown Prince, Hereditary Prince, Elector Prince. In addition, princes could fulfill special functions or hold a special status: Prince Regent, Prince Consort. The designation prince or princess is in the German language area - if at all permissible (differently in Austria) - no more nobility title, but name component.