ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the two figures at the acme of religious power, at Christ and the Theotokos, the Mother of God, and asks in what ways representations of either of them as children display the features central to the themes discussed so far: elements of childhood, family affiliations, sanctity or power. In what sense are they represented as children with attributes we might associate with childhood? What kind of relationships do they appear to have with their parents? How is their sacred state conveyed to the viewer? And in what sense is potency defined or suggested?
