Here You Are in 1569

In of one Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of 1569 "Wedding Dance in the Open Air" many figures are meticulously depicted wrirlng around at a wedding celebration.

It's just one example of the many thousands of paintings throughout history that show large crowds of people, their faces staring out across the centuries being carefully described in the days before photography.

"Here You Are in 1569" is the name given to a new image search that will find a depiction of your face in one of the multiples that have been carefully scanned and digitised in a giant database.

Here's how it works
You upload two well lit and photographed pics of your head and face, front view and profile. When the database finds the closest match possible, you are invited to pay a small fee to receive a reproduction of the original painting, with your face highlighted, from within the midst of the others depicted.

This will more than likely be contained in the work of some obscure mid 18th century painting, but a few will find themselves in a famous masterpiece like Rembrandt's "The Nightwatch" or as a disciple seated at one of the many versions of "The Last Supper".

You may of course find yourself gloriously resembling one of Bosch's demons, but pehaps will be satisfied to appear finely attired as a gentleman or lady in something like "A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881" by William Powell Frith.