Renaissance pet portraits, in Leonardo's manner
The smoky, soft-edged look of the Italian High Renaissance: quiet earth colours, no hard lines anywhere, and your pet gazing out with the same faint mystery. See yours free in about a minute.
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Real renaissance examples
Dog · Renaissance · The Last Supper 
Dog · Renaissance · Mona Lisa
Real portraits from customers who said we could show them.
Leonardo, sfumato and a famous ermine
The High Renaissance in Italy, roughly the late 1400s to the 1520s, is the age of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. Leonardo's great trick was sfumato, from the Italian for smoke: forms turned so gradually from light to shadow that you can't see where one ends. He built it up in thin, almost transparent layers of oil, over months or years. The Mona Lisa, which he worked on from about 1503 until close to his death in 1519, is the best-known example.
Animals weren't strangers to his portraits, either. His Lady with an Ermine, painted around 1490 and now in Kraków, shows a young woman holding a long white ermine that looks as alert and intelligent as she does. It's a good reminder that a Renaissance animal portrait isn't a joke; done properly, it's rather dignified.
How our renaissance style looks
Our Renaissance style follows Leonardo's manner: thin glazes over a warm brown ground, muted greens and ambers, soft smoky transitions and no hard edges. It is quiet and still rather than grand.
If you'd like the full joke, there are two famous scenes made only for the painted styles: your pet as the Mona Lisa, and your pet at the Last Supper. If you'd like it grand instead, the Royal scene puts them in robes.
Scenes it suits
Renaissance is at its best with the scenes that borrow from the period: the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, a Royal portrait or a Knight. It also gives a plain sitting portrait a serious, old-master look, and it makes a dignified memorial.
Looks with their own examples
Each has a page of real customers' pets painted in it.
Where Renaissance looks best
Questions
Is it painted by hand?
No. It isn't painted by hand. It's painted-style: an AI image model makes it from your photo, so you see it in about a minute rather than waiting weeks for an artist. It's made to look like a Renaissance oil painting, and it's printed, not painted, on whatever you order.
Is this the same as a royal pet portrait?
Not quite. Renaissance is a style: how the picture is painted. Royal is a scene: robes, a crown and a throne room. You can have the Royal scene in Renaissance, in oils or in several other styles. Our royal pet portrait page has more on that.
Does my pet have to wear a costume?
No. The plain Renaissance portrait is just your pet, sitting quietly in that smoky old-master light. The Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Royal and Knight scenes add the costume or setting.
What does it cost to try?
Nothing. Add a photo and you see the finished picture in about a minute, with no account and no card. Seeing it is free, and we'll email you the full-size file free too. You only pay if you choose a print, mug, card or other product.
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