During the Renaissance Art and culture came to life. Humanist studies flourished, depicitons of nature became more realistic and rich people started paying artists to portray them and hence immortalize their earthly shell. Nowadays, humans try to do the same - we pay our internet provider so we can stage our everyday life on social media and share it with everyone who cares.

This project and thesis examines three different portraits made between 1460 and 1501. The research focuses on the clothing worn by the depicted persons and social-cultural meanings in the patterns, fabrics and the way the clothes were worn. In the following practical part of the thesis these three costumes were sewn and staged in paintings that were created back in the chosen epoch.

The goal of this project is to show the difference between our clothing now and then and how people liked to portray themselves.