Medieval religious painting of a funeral procession outside a gothic… — AI art by @justrob
@justrob · 10/5/2026
Entry in the Fashion Through the Ages theme on BudgetPixel.
The idea was a funeral in a walled town square, painted like a panel: hard edges at every depth, flat enamel colour instead of soft blending. I ran the same prompt through six models to see which ones could hold that. Look at the shrouded body on the diagonal, the bearers in red and green, the monks with the cross, and the small divine pair in the upper left sky. Some keep the cobbles and towers crisp; others blur as the figures get small. Models, in order: 1. seedream-5.0-pro 2. nano-banana-2-lite 3. muse-image-1.0 4. grok-imagine-image 5. gpt-image-2 6. flux-3-image Reference image: https://i0.wp.com/dpuhonors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-1.05.37-PM.png?resize=544%2C806&ssl=1

Tags: northern renaissance, early netherlandish painting, religious art, catholic artwork, funeral procession, gothic architecture, biblical scene, god the father, winged angel, medieval town, devotional art, oil painting, medieval art, sacred scene
AI Model: SeeDream 5.0 Pro
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops

Tags: northern renaissance painting, early netherlandish art, christian religious art, funeral scene, miracle artwork, medieval town, gothic architecture, jesus christ, shrouded corpse, catholic clerics, historical oil painting, sacred art, medieval religious scene, renaissance art
AI Model: Nano Banana 2 Lite
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops

Tags: medieval religious art, gothic painting, early
AI Model: Muse Image 1.0
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops

Tags: northern renaissance painting, religious art, funeral scene, christian narrative artwork, medieval town square, winged angels, catholic devotional art, historical oil painting, biblical scene, mourners, castle backdrop, figurative fine art, 16th century art, european historical painting
AI Model: Grok Imagine
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops

Tags: northern renaissance art, early netherlandish painting, old master artwork, religious funeral painting, gothic cathedral, god the father, angel, medieval cityscape, catholic ritual, 15th century art, historical religious scene, devotional painting, somber artwork, funeral procession, medieval townspeople
AI Model: GPT-Image-2
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops

Tags: Early Netherlandish painting, religious art, medieval funeral, catholic devotional art, gothic church, God and angel, renaissance painting, miracle scene, christian artwork, northern renaissance, historical town, funeral procession, medieval illustration, religious miracle, historical oil painting
AI Model: FLUX 3
Prompt: Rogier van der Weyden + Jean Fouquet + oil glazes on chalk-gessoed panel, where Rogier's angular, sharply creased drapery creates faceted planes bounded by crisp dark contours through tightly modelled local colour, and Fouquet's miniaturist precision produces clear even daylight and pale bluish recession via fine-pointed brushwork, and the gesso ground infuses enamel-smooth saturation. The fusion manifests as vermilion, lead white, ochre and umber pigments, thin translucent glazes, and hard edges kept at every depth, transforming any subject through lacquered clarity. A funeral gathering of mourning townspeople and clergy around a shrouded corpse, including bearers in red and green, monks with a processional cross and book, and God the Father with an angel above Wide shot at eye level, the shrouded body laid diagonally across the foreground while two bearers lift it, mourners behind raising their arms, clergy standing at right with a cross, the divine pair floating in the upper left sky, layered from foreground corpse to town and castle beyond Scene set in a walled medieval town square before a church entrance during the day, with a funeral procession, featuring a cobbled street, a coffined bier, castellated walls, towers and a rocky hillside above the rooftops
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justrob
If i notified you here, and you dont want me to do so - let me know and I will gladly remove you from my notify lists!
justrob
no, modeled after a plague death image
panos
Great idea and results!