The show will underscore the point that these Renaissance portraits are far different from today's.

Sleek and dark and interesting looking, a wide smile on a face like a Renaissance portrait.

Also on display, through March 19, are seven important Renaissance portraits from the Art Institute's collection.

The portraits will be hung with a small group of Renaissance portraits from the Art Institute's collection.

The length of the hair and beard is uncommon in Renaissance portraits and suggests, as now, a person of sagacity.

"She works at Italian Vogue, and I did her as a Renaissance portrait that was very severe," he said.

Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries.

"The Pitti owns no Monets, and while we do have some Italian Renaissance portraits, they are not as good."

Bernhard Prinz's color photographs, which are also large, although more theatrically constructed, evoke northern Renaissance portraits and altarpieces.