Will my cat still be recognisable in a Renaissance style?

That is the whole design of it. The style controls the medium, the light, the palette, and the costume; your photograph controls the face, the markings, and the expression. Every render is also scored against your original photo before you see it, and one that falls below the likeness threshold is regenerated automatically.

What is the difference between the Renaissance styles and the court-portrait styles?

The Renaissance and old-master styles are about paint — sfumato, glazing, chiaroscuro, the surface of the picture. The royal and aristocratic styles add a costume and a setting: ermine and brocade, a lace ruff, a Georgian park. Pick the first if you want a painting of your cat, and the second if you want your cat as somebody important.

What should I print a classical portrait on?

Archival giclée on 310gsm cotton rag or Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm if you plan to frame it behind glass; gallery-wrapped canvas on 1.5-inch stretcher bars if you want it to hang bare like a painting. The float-framed canvas — canvas set in a floating black wood frame with a shadow gap — is the closest thing we sell to a gallery presentation.

Are the previews free?

Yes. Every visit includes 5 rendering passes and each pass produces 3 portraits, so you can try 15 watermarked previews across as many classical styles as you like before spending anything.

Classical Styles

Renaissance and old-master portraits of your cat.

Sfumato, chiaroscuro, ermine and brocade — the visual language European portraitists spent four centuries refining, applied to the cat asleep on your sofa. Each of these is a written painting brief, and your photograph is what it is painted from.

Renaissance & old-master styles

These are about the paint itself: how light falls, how edges dissolve, how a glaze sits on a panel.

Da Vinci Renaissance — Soft sfumato technique with warm earth tones and chiaroscuro lighting.
Renaissance Tulip Field — High Renaissance oil painting with a vibrant tulip field backdrop — dignified and faithful.
Renaissance Fantasy Garden 1 — Old-world oil with crisp glazing and whimsical miniature garden vignettes.
Dutch Master — Dramatic chiaroscuro with deep blacks and luminous golden highlights.
Chiaroscuro Memorial 1 — Baroque oil with warm candlelight — lighter and more legible for memorial portraits.
Delacroix — Romantic drama with stormlit atmosphere, heroic chiaroscuro, and sweeping painterly energy.
Turner Atmosphere — Luminous atmospheric oil painting with glowing light, misty diffusion, and romantic sky tones.

Court & aristocratic portraiture

These add the full apparatus of a state portrait — the costume, the column, the sky behind the shoulder — in the manner of the painters who invented the formula.

Rigaud — Bourbon State Portrait — Your pet in the full Louis XIV state-portrait formula by Hyacinthe Rigaud — ermine cape, fleur-de-lis brocade, marble columns, scepter, theatrical Baroque grandeur.
David — Neoclassical Imperial — Your pet rendered in the cool neoclassical authority of Jacques-Louis David — Napoleonic state portrait energy, marble columns, restrained palette, sculptural stillness.
Goya — Spanish Court — Your pet in the late-Goya Spanish court manner — gleaming embroidered uniform, sashes and medals, dark velvet background, loose passionate brushwork.
Hals — Dutch Golden Age — Your pet as a Dutch Golden Age burgher in the lively manner of Frans Hals — black silk doublet, white lace ruff, loose brushwork, candid sparkle in the eyes.
Gainsborough — Georgian Park — Your pet as Georgian English aristocracy in the manner of Thomas Gainsborough — silk frock coat, feathery brushwork, blue-gray-green palette, English country park backdrop with light ruffled sky.
László — Edwardian Society — Your pet in the late-Edwardian society-portrait manner of Philip de László — looser, more luminous than Sargent, satin and lace and drawing-room light, dove-gray and pearl palette.
Victorian Royalty — Regal portrait with ornate gilded frame aesthetic and rich velvet tones.
Imperial Czar Heirloom — Old-master court portrait with brocade, gilding, and candlelit warmth.

These are a fraction of the library. The full set is in the style gallery.

Canvas and print specifications

Portraits are painted square, and the wall-art formats are square to match. Nothing is cropped to fit a frame.

Gallery Canvas — Gallery-wrapped canvas on 1.5" solid wood stretcher bars. Made for the wall, square format. Sizes 10x10 to 50x50 inches, from $79.
Float-Framed Heirloom — Canvas mounted in a floating black wood frame with shadow gap — our premium keepsake presentation. Square format. Sizes 12x12 to 40x40 inches, from $199.
Archival Giclée Print — Archival pigment ink on 310gsm cotton rag paper. Museum-grade fine-art print, square format. Sizes 8x8 to 30x30 inches, from $35.
Hahnemühle Fine-Art Print — Museum-grade Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm cotton paper — the same archival surface used by major galleries. Square format. Sizes 12x12 to 30x30 inches, from $79.

Questions about the classical styles

Will my cat still be recognisable in a Renaissance style?: That is the whole design of it. The style controls the medium, the light, the palette, and the costume; your photograph controls the face, the markings, and the expression. Every render is also scored against your original photo before you see it, and one that falls below the likeness threshold is regenerated automatically.
What is the difference between the Renaissance styles and the court-portrait styles?: The Renaissance and old-master styles are about paint — sfumato, glazing, chiaroscuro, the surface of the picture. The royal and aristocratic styles add a costume and a setting: ermine and brocade, a lace ruff, a Georgian park. Pick the first if you want a painting of your cat, and the second if you want your cat as somebody important.
What should I print a classical portrait on?: Archival giclée on 310gsm cotton rag or Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm if you plan to frame it behind glass; gallery-wrapped canvas on 1.5-inch stretcher bars if you want it to hang bare like a painting. The float-framed canvas — canvas set in a floating black wood frame with a shadow gap — is the closest thing we sell to a gallery presentation.
Are the previews free?: Yes. Every visit includes 5 rendering passes and each pass produces 3 portraits, so you can try 15 watermarked previews across as many classical styles as you like before spending anything.

See your cat as an old master.

Fifteen free watermarked previews. Try three classical styles and compare them side by side before you spend anything.

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