Hidden van't Woudt I.1

Based on the Portrait of a Gentleman by Jan van't Woudt from 1599. We live in a time where individuality is very important, we know the feeling that we want to present ourselves as an individual person. In the past portraits were also created exactly for this purpose, before the times of photography and the selfie. But just like today, these portraits were also meant to do more, they placed the portrayed person in a social context and showed how wealthy, how cool, how fashionable one was. This was achieved by carefully selected clothing and pose. The original is a three-quarter portrait and that was one of the most expensive ways to order a portrait. The more of the body was shown, the m...View all