Approaches to the Byzantine Family by Brubaker Leslie; Tougher Shaun; Brubaker Professor Leslie & Shaun Tougher

Author:Brubaker, Leslie; Tougher, Shaun; Brubaker, Professor Leslie & Shaun Tougher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 9.11 Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, south gallery mosaic, Zoe and Constantine IX with Christ, 1042–1050, from nave

Power and Status

In her chapter on ‘power and status’, West considers family portraiture only briefly, but her example is telling: Andrea Mantegna’s fresco decoration of the Camera degli Sposi (wedding room) at the Ducal Palace in Mantua (1465–1474), which portrays members, young and old, of the ruling Gonzaga family in a detailed depiction of the local landscape.42 Marriage partnerships and family portraiture are, once again, linked, as indeed they still are in contemporary wedding photographs.

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