During the 15th century portraiture was beginning to manifest in art. This genre of art began to become the main source of income for many Flemish artists (Kleiner, 555). Notably, portraits were usually used as gifts in order to insure remembrance or to assert higher authority. Flemish artists would embellish symbolic meanings in the details of their paintings. An example of this would be in Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin by Rogier Van Der Weyden, on the armrests it depicts Adam, Eve, and the serpent, this is to represent Mary as the new Eve and Christ as the new Adam who will redeem humanity from sin (Kleiner, 554). One artist in particular who had an immense impact on this genre of art was Jan Van Eyck. Jan Van Eyck was one of the first
