Andronikos II

Manuel II

Cleofe Malatesta Palaiologos
Mistra
Plethon

John VIII
Maria of Trebizond

Thomas, Despot

Cardinal Bessarion

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John V Palaiologos

Manuscript of the Funeral Oration of Manuel II for his brother Theodoros. Constantinople, 1409–11.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
(Supplément grec 309).

 

Traditionally and erroneously identified as the Despot Demetrios
as Monk, it is actually the portrait of a stratioto of the same name,
from the Morea or Zakythos, and a prominent member of the Greek community of Venice. He wears normal Venetian male dress, not
the garb of a monk. This is one of the two stratioto portraits known,
and so very valuable for that. Petrop. gr. 118, 385v.

Tomb of Theodoros I Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea.
Left, Theodoros as Despot; right, as monk.
Church of the Hodegetriea, Vrontochion Monastery. Mistra
This image was erroneously identified by Gabriel Millet as Theodoros II who, in fact, was buried in
the Pantokrator in Constantinople and who never was a monk. The misinformation has been
regularly reprinted in the two main guidebooks sold at Mistra.

 

 

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Two tomb frescos from the Kariye Djami, Istanbul.
L: A woman in a gown of Western fabric; the tomb has been suggested as that of Theodora, wife of Constantine Palaiologos.
R: Grand robes. The adult male has the Palaiologan monogram woven into his.

 

Manuel Chrysoloras
Inv. 9849 bix, Département des Dessins
Musée du Louvre