It was an excuse to practice/show off your portraiture skills

Fun Fact: One Direction had zero fans during the renaissance.

Renaissance Artist: .... pose like you're in an 80s new wave music video

lute music with trumpets starts up with fast drum beat ..... "YOU SPIN ME ROUND, ROUND, ROUND!!!!"

It was probably a skill flex. "Look i can draw people from any angle and they only look a little weird"

Bottom right has an excuse. They look like soldiers. Got a keep a perimeter.

Paintings took such an amount of time that people were often in different positions by the time the painter got to them?