In this recorded lecture, we looked at many more examples of intricate portraiture. Although we talked about Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, I found Van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife to be the most interesting piece we looked at. With many of the parts of the portrait acting as disguised symbolism. Within this portrait, we examined some of the ways in which gender played a part in portrait portrayals, with Giovanni portrayed in the city sphere, an open window to his side. His wife, on the other hand, is portrayed within her contemporary role at the time, within the house. Furthermore, the symbolism on their respective sides of the portrait, which we talked about might have served as part of a marriage pact, also matches values that were expected for a man or a woman at the time. Furthermore, I found Michelangelo’s sculpture of Giuliano de’ Medic to be very interesting, mostly due to his idealization of the looks of the man, and his commentary on it later. His understanding is interesting as he sees portraits as not needing to physically represent the subject, but rather portraying them through portraiture that presented the characteristics that represented the subject.