The correct answer is D) A ruler always is in the public eye. Ludovico’s principal commission from Mantegna was a portrait gallery for the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. His mural decoration took the artist nearly ten years to complete. The so-called Camera Picta shows the Marchese and his consort, together with their children, friends, courtiers in leisure time, illustrating the present successes and alluding to the future ambitions of the Gonzaga dynasty.
