 This is a reflection of the Renaissance humanist values of rationality, religion, and the worth of education, values that were then becoming mainstream among the Northern European upper classes.In the same year, he also painted the portrait of Pieter de Corte, the newly appointed bishop of the recently created bishopric of Bruges.De Corte was appointed by King Philip II of Spain; the prestige of such a commission indicates the high status that Pourbus had accrued by this time.