Published On Mar 25, 2023
0:00 - 512 - Pedanius Dioscorides (Greek) - Vienna Dioscorides
Depicts Princess Anicia Juliana, flanked to the left by the personification of magnanimity and to the right by a figure representing knowledge, while at her feet is a personification of the gratitude of the arts.
0:30 - 512 - Pedanius Dioscorides (Greek) - Vienna Dioscorides
Illustrates a rose which was valued medicinally for the cooling effect ascribed to it. It was used for an ointment for the eyes, and for compresses used for abdominal inflammations, stomach disorders and skin rashes. The leaves were used for headache, and pains in the eyes, ears, intestines and womb.
1:00 - 526 - Unknown (Italian) - Mausoleum of Theodoric
Built around Theodoric's death in 526, this unique building shows the remarkable degree of artistic originality that persisted in Ravenna while it was still an Ostrogothic town
1:30 - 526 - Unknown (Italian) - Mausoleum of Theodoric
The interior comprises a cross-shaped vaulted chamber on the ground floor; a porphyry bath was reused as the royal sarcophagus.
2:00 - 526 - Unknown (Italian) - Mausoleum of Theodoric - Interior of the dome.
2:30 - 500s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Sarcophagus of the Lambs
Objects of interest in Sant'Apollinare in Classe are - among others - sarcophagi of the 6th century and later carved with chi-rho monograms, lambs, birds, vine scrolls, and other symbolic motifs. One of the sarcophagi is the Sarcophagus of the Lambs.
3:00 - 526-530 - Unknown (Italian) - Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian
3:30 - 526-530 - Unknown (Italian) - Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian
4:00 - 526-530 - Unknown (Italian) - Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian
4:30 - 532-537 - Isidore and Anthemius (Greek) - Hagia Sophia
5:00 - 532-537 - Isidore and Anthemius (Greek) - Hagia Sophia
5:30 - 532-537 - Isidore and Anthemius (Greek) - Hagia Sophia
6:00 - 532-537 - Isidore and Anthemius (Greek) - Hagia Sophia
6:30 - 532-565 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Basilica Cistern
7:00 - 500s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Garima Gospels
7:30 - 540 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Euphrasian Basilica
8:00 - 540 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Euphrasian Basilica
8:30 - 540s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Abel and Melchisedek
9:00 - 540s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Empress Theodora and her Court
9:30 - 540s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Interior of San Vitale
10:00 - 540s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Interior of San Vitale
10:30 - 545–553 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Throne of Maximianus
11:00 - 547 - Unknown (Italian) - San Vitale
11:30 - 500s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Arrest of Christ
12:00 - 500s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Interior decoration of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
12:30 - 500s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Blessing Christ between Angels
13:00 - 548 - Unknown (Irish) - Clonmacnois Monastery
13:30 - 548 - Unknown (Irish) - Clonmacnois Monastery
14:00 - 548 - Unknown (Irish) - Clonmacnois Monastery
14:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - Eagle-shaped fibula
15:00 - 500s - Unknown (French) - Fibula of Picquigny
15:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - Fish fibula
16:00 - Mid 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Sinope Gospels (Codex Sinopensis)
16:30 - Mid 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Codex Purpureus Rossanensis (Rossano Gospels)
17:00 - Mid 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Sinope Gospels (Codex Sinopensis)
17:30 - 548-565 - Unknown (Byzantine Egypt) - Saint Catherine's Monastery
18:00 - 548-565 - Unknown (Byzantine Egypt) - Saint Catherine's Monastery
18:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
19:00 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
19:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
20:00 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
20:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
21:00 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
21:30 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
22:00 - 500s - Unknown (Italian) - The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe
22:30 - 550-600 - Unknown (Irish) - Glendalough Monastery
23:00 - 560-600 - Unknown (Irish) - Cathach of St Columba
23:30 - 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Vienna Genesis
24:00 - 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Vienna Genesis
24:30 - 500s - Unknown (Greek) - Vienna Genesis
25:00 - 580 - Unknown (Italian) - Papal Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls
25:30 - Depicts Christ enthroned on a sphere between the Apostles Peter and Paul.
26:00 - 580s - Unknown (Italian) - San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
26:30 - 580s - Unknown (Italian) - San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
27:00 - 586 - Rabbula (Byzantine) - Rabbula Codex (Rabbula Gospels)
27:30 - 586 - Rabbula (Byzantine) - Rabbula Codex (Rabbula Gospels)