Selfie → Renaissance oil painting

Chiaroscuro lighting, classical oil-on-canvas.

Example output: a Renaissance oil painting portrait in chiaroscuro lighting, museum-lit, classical brushwork. This is what your selfie looks like after running the prompt through MCP Media Engine img2img.

job: mjob_851ad874-4211-448c-8aa2-45e5c6e39251 · 261,919B webp

The prompt

Verbatim. Paste this into your agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Hermes — and it will submit the job via MCP Media Engine.

transform into a renaissance oil painting portrait, chiaroscuro lighting, classical oil on canvas texture, museum lighting, painterly brushstrokes, no text, no words, no logos

Run it in 3 steps

01 · install + key

Wire MCP Media Engine into your agent

Get a key at app.mcpmediaengine.com and set the env var.

npx -y mcp-media-engine

# set MEDIAENGINE_API_KEY in your env
# get a key at https://app.mcpmediaengine.com

02 · attach photo

Drop your image into the chat

Selfie, pet, product, or room — attach to your agent or paste any image URL.

# either:
# • attach the image to your agent chat
# • paste any image URL in the prompt

input_image_url: "https://your-image-url.jpg"
denoising_strength: 0.65  # recommended for img2img

03 · paste prompt

Run the prompt

The agent submits the job and returns the asset URL.

prompt: "transform into a renaissance oil painting portrait, chiaroscuro lighting, classical oil on canvas texture, museum lighting, painterly brushstrokes, no text, no words, no logos"
aspect_ratio: "4:5"
model: "nano-banana"

Model + credits

model

Default Image

credits per call

1 credit

aspect ratio

4:5

Live model catalog: /models. Credit costs surfaced at request time and echoed in the response.

Works in

This prompt is designed to run in any of these MCP-compatible agents. The wiring is the same — only the agent UI changes.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Hermes

Best for

Brand-led IG content, founder portraits, art-meets-AI crossover.

Policy: use your own photos — don't upload photos of other people without their consent. No celebrities, no third-party faces. Example imagery on this page is generated via MED itself; job IDs are listed in the image caption.

Frequently asked

Where did the example image come from?▶

Generated via POST /api/jobs using a live MCP Media Engine key. Job ID mjob_851ad874-4211-448c-8aa2-45e5c6e39251 (Default Image, 4:5). The example is text-to-image; running this with your own selfie uses the same prompt plus input_image_url + denoising_strength 0.65.