Asikaa Cosgrove

One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.