jun 10, 513 - Vienna Dioskurides
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c. 512
This frontispiece to a medical manuscript shows Anicia Juliana, the receiver of the manuscript, in seated in an imperial or even Christ-like pose receiving a manuscript from a personification of the "gratitude for the arts." Anicia Juliana patronized many churches and maintained a heated rivalry with Emperor Justin throughout his reign.
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Early Christian and Byzantine Art
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