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This chapter surveys the genesis of Christian marriage. Its aim is to probe how the popular practice of this sacrament underpinned the continuity of its patrimonial, patrilineal, and patriarchal values. It considers the points of contact between nuptial rituals and marital portraiture in the fifteenth century. The visual analysed are rooted in three novel ideas: 1. Alongside betrothal and nuptial events, portraits celebrated the sexual consummation of the union. I have called these likenesses "Morgengabe portraits" to stress their affinity with gifts that women once received after their virginity was lost in the marriage bed. 2. Because of pre-marital uncertainties, the commissions for the portraits of the female betrothed received priority over those of their male companions. 3. The conditions of spectatorship were phenomenological and relational, and were augmented by mnemo-techniques and by the storage methods for these items.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN