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Remember last time, when we talked about our poor little Tetrarchs? How squatty and identical they were, clinging together in mutual support, and how this indicated a new shift away from realistic portrature?

This trend did indeed continue for several hundred years. But a few stray artworks with a stronger interest in capturing the likeness of a particular person rather than an ideal do pop up here and there. It's possible that the humanistic bend of the twelfth century, which resulted in all those anguished Man of Sorrows, prodded artists into rediscovering some of the possibilities of the human face, and with it, an occasional interest in likeness. And so we come upon this pair:

is for Uta and her husband Ekkehard.

( ...a feudal baron and his handsome wife... )