... as reflection of vanitas theme. Portraits of Maximilian, preserving his face after his or her death, carry inscriptions common to ancient Roman epitaphs. Memory of Maximilian’s acts was preserved in autobiographical ...
... and published a commission by Claeis van de Kerchove in 1576 to Gillis Claeissens for an epitaph triptych, of which the two side panels are conserved in the Budapest Museum under the name of Pieter Claeissens ...