🎭 Culture Aug 12, 2026 · Kate Mothes

Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits

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Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits
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From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits.



The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” (1489-91) or Antonello da Messina’s “Portrait of a Young Man” (c. 1470). The settings and the addition of fine garments

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