Козак Н. Образ і Влада. Княжі портрети у мистецтві Київської Русі ХІ ст. /Kozak N. Image And Authority.  Kniazian Portraits in the Art of Kyivan Rus’ of the Eleventh Century
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lviv
Description: This book is about Kniazian portraits – works of art representing the members of the royal family ruling the Eastern-European Medieval state known as Kyivan Rus’ (Ukraine-Rus’). Such portraits are very few in number but they have a huge bibliography. Many interpretations have been proposed and I dealed with all of them looking for what could be recognized and what should be dismissed. I was trying to find out what was the intention behind the creation of each portrait and what was their perception by their contemporaries.

The book includes three chapters each dedicated to the separate monument. Chapter one “Family Of The Founder” discuses the family portrait of Kniaz Iaroslav Volodymyrovych (1016–1018, 1019–1054) fragmentary preserved on the walls of St. Sophia cathedral in Kyiv; chapter two “Usurper’s Gift” – the family portrait of Kniaz Sviatoslav Iaroslavych (1073–1076) in Izbornyk of the year 1073 from the State Historical Museum in Moscow (In. no Син. 1043); chapter three “Prayer And Coronation” – portraits of Gertrude, the wife of Kyivan Kniaz Iziaslav Iaroslavych (1054–1068, 1069–1073, 1077–1078), their son Iaropolk-Peter and his wife Cunigunde in the Egbert Psalter from the National Archeological museum of Cіvidale del Friuli (In. no Ms. CXXXVI).
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