Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) was Queen of France, as the wife of King Henry II of France (1519-1559), who reigned the Kingdom of France from 31 March 1547–10 July 1559. Born in Florence, and the second Queen from the French House of Valois-Angoulême, she is best remembered for her patronage of the arts during the French Renaissance, which was a flourishing of art and architecture in the kingdom during her lifetime. Most notably, the numerous châteaux in the Loire Valley; including Château de Chenonceau, which famously spans the river Cher, just east of the city of Tours. This exquisitely pixelated, glitchy, and sickeningly stunning series of portraits was created by her using her MacBook Pro, Dalle2, and her suite of Adobe tools—which included the first version of photoshop—during one of her many periods of self-adulation, in the 1560s.

She was that ahead of her time.