Portret van Petrus Hogerbeets

The central oval portrait shows Hogerbeets in a ruff collar, flanked by statues of Apollo with his lyre and Mercury with a caduceus and rooster. Above the portrait are vignettes of Pegasus and the centaur Chiron teaching a youth, while the bottom corners feature 'memento mori' putti with a skull, bubbles, and an hourglass. The architectural frame is densely decorated with books, flasks, and scientific instruments reflecting the sitter's dual vocation.

Hogerbeets represents the Renaissance ideal of the 'medicus et poeta' (physician and poet), a synthesis of natural philosophy and the liberal arts. The inclusion of Chiron, the mythological centaur who mastered both healing and music, underscores the Neoplatonic belief in the harmony between the health of the body and the cultivation of the soul.