艺术家把娇生惯养的宠物，变成文艺复兴时期的“爪子特质”

A team of artists are offering adoring pet parents the opportunity to give their fur babies the royal treatment — by painting Renaissance-style “pawtraits.”

近日，一组艺术家为宠物父母们提供了一个机会，让他们可以像对待皇室成员一样对待自己的宠物宝宝——他们可以把自己的宠物画成文艺复兴时期风格的“爪子特征”。

“We give you the opportunity to see your pet in a special majestic image,” hypes the Royal Pet Pawtrait website, where adoring animal owners can order custom portraits for $69 to $134.

“给你一个机会，让你看到宠物特殊的宏伟的形象，”皇家宠物Pawtrait网站大肆宣传，在那里，崇拜动物的主人可以花69美元到134美元订购定制的肖像。

It’s a quick three-step process to turn Rover into royalty: First, owners must pick a regal outfit, then upload a photo of their pooch, pick a canvas size — and pay up. If the pup has a favorite toy, the artists can incorporate it into the portrait, too.

将宠物变成“皇室”需要三个步骤:首先，主人必须挑选一套皇室服装，然后上传一张狗狗的照片，选择画布大小——然后付钱。如果小狗有一个最喜欢的玩具，艺术家也可以把它画进肖像里。

Pawtrait’s founder Hanna Kostenko, 31, says she was inspired to start the company after seeing the 2016 film “The Secret Life of Pets.”

Pawtrait的创始人、31岁的汉娜·克斯汀科说，她是在看了2016年的电影《宠物的秘密生活》后才有了创办这家公司的灵感。

“[After] watching it I definitely knew what I need to do and how to make it work,” Kostenko says. She and her co-workers — who are based around the globe — take up to five days to create the portraits based on images of kings, princesses, nobles and military figures that were painted during the 14th to 17th centuries.

Kostenko说:“看了之后，我完全知道我需要做什么，以及如何去做。”她和她在世界各地的同事花了5天时间，根据14到17世纪的国王、公主、贵族和军事人物的画像创作了这些肖像画。

Kostenko especially loves imagining the animals’ possible background stories.

Kostenko特别喜欢想象这些动物可能的背景故事。

“Imagine the secret life of a pet — she is a royal princess and rules the dog world,” she tells Caters News, listing possible dream fates for pets. “[Maybe] he is the greatest general, who conquered France with his mouse guard and got the best Roquefort cheese; maybe he is an admiral of the cat navy and owns all the fish in the ocean.”

“想象一下宠物的秘密生活——她是皇室公主，统治着狗的世界，”她告诉Caters新闻，列出了宠物可能的梦想命运。“(也许)他是最伟大的将军，用他的老鼠卫士征服了法国，得到了最好的罗克福奶酪;也许他是猫海军上将，拥有海洋里所有的鱼。”

Pawtraits aren’t the only luxury people are buying to spoil their pets: A recent study found that nearly half of millennials surveyed have gone into pet debt, spending thousands a year on their cats and dogs. There’s even a rise in “pet-nup” fur baby custody negotiations and “pawternity leave” and the invention of Uber Pet earlier this year.

宠物特质并不是人们购买宠物来宠溺宠物的唯一奢侈品:最近的一项研究发现，接受调查的千禧一代中，近一半的人都欠下了宠物债，每年在他们的猫狗身上花费数千美元。今年早些时候，优步宠物(Uber Pet)的发明，以及“宠物保姆”(Pet -nup)毛皮婴儿监护权谈判和“宠物陪产假”的数量也有所增加。

It’s no wonder, really, considering a third of parents prefer their pets over their kids.

这并不奇怪，真的，考虑到三分之一的父母更喜欢他们的宠物而不是他们的孩子。