Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/portraiture-in-renaissance-and-baroque-europe
A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.
Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia Robert Peake the Elder ca. 1606 Self-Portrait
