Week Six: Family Portraits
Compare and contrast the family portrait of Peter the Great's father and Peter the Great for what it tells us about power, piety, gender and love.
1) Semeon Ushakov, Mother of God surrounded by the Tree of the Ruling Dynasty of Moscow, with Patriarch and founder of dynasty watering and tree, and representations of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, his wife Mariia Miloslavskaia, and their sons Feodor and Ioann on the bottom border

3) "Hearts entwined" family portrait, 1715. Oval form, on enamel, Peter the Great and his wife Catherine, with their three children Anna, Elizabeth and Peter on pedestal at top.


2) closeup of Aleksei Mikhailovich and his family from that icon
4) Family portrait, 1720, all seated. Same group: Peter, Catherine and three children, Anna, Elizabeth and Peter.

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