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DER WIENER DIOSCORIDES History and Relation to History of Art and Pharmacy DER WIENER DIOSCORIDES History and Relation to History of Art and Pharmacy lørdag 10. september 11 DIOSCORIDES about 20 - about 70 Dioscorides traveled extensively seeking medicinal substances from all over the Roman and Greek world De Materica Medica - 65 not illustrated lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONAL- BIBLIOTHEK Arrived inVienna 1569 Purchased by Maximillian II In The Imperial Library in 1592 UNESCO ‘s Memory of the World 1997 lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 COD. MED GR.1 *Juliana Anacia Codex *Codex Vindobonensis *385 paintings of plants *Restored in 1405 by John Chortamenos Text by Dioscorides, Rufus, Dionysius of Philadelphia and Nicander Gift to Anacia Juliana. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 PEACOCK *In Greco-Roman mythology the Peacock is identified with the goddess Hera (Juno) *In Christianity the peacock is an ancient symbol of eternal life. *The Peacock represents the "all-seeing" church and resurrection, renewal and immortality lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 CHIRON In Greek mythology, the centaur, Chiron, was wounded by Hercules. Though he was immortal, it is said that he invented medicine in order to heal himself. He taught Asclepius the art of healing, which became the source of all divine medical knowledge among the Greeks. Chiron was also the teacher of the hero, Achilles, who was thought to have had some special medical knowledge. lørdag 10. september 11 NIGROS about 10 - about 40 lørdag 10. september 11 MACHEON Known from Homer lørdag 10. september 11 HERAKLEIDES OF TARENT about 125 - 75 AC physician lørdag 10. september 11 PAMPHILOS FROM ALEXANDRIA about 50-100 lørdag 10. september 11 MANTILAS about 150-100 AC physician lørdag 10. september 11 XENOKRATES AUS APHRODISIAS About 30-80 physician lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 GALEN about 130 - about 200 physician and philosopher lørdag 10. september 11 DIOSCORIDES Physician, pharmacologist and botanist. De Materica Medica five book study focused upon "the preparation, properties, and testing of drugs", became the most central pharmacological work in Europe and the Middle East for the next sixteen centuries. lørdag 10. september 11 CRATEUAS rhizotomist, body physician to Mithridates VI Eupator (120-63 B.C.) had the reputation of knowing more about poisons and their antidotes than any one else lørdag 10. september 11 NICANDER 2nd century BC, Greek poet, physician and grammarian is holding out a plant to a serpent His treatise on snake bites is part of the manuscript He wrote a number of works both in prose and verse, of which two survive complete. The longest, Theriaca, is a hexameter poem , the other is Alexipharmaca. lørdag 10. september 11 APOLLONIUS MYS about 50 AC physician lørdag 10. september 11 RUFUS OF EPHESUS about 80-110 was an ancient Greek pharmacologist physician and author who wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. He was to some extent a follower of Hippocrates, although he at times criticized or departed from that author's teachings. Autor of the Carmen de viribus herbarum lørdag 10. september 11 ANDREAS about 217 AC lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 Dioscorides is seated. Heuresis gives the mandrake root to him. At Dioscrides feets the dog who is dead. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 Dioscorides sits wrighting in a codex on his lap. In front of Dioscorides is an artist, seated at a lower level, painting an illustration of the mandrake root held by Epinoia. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 ANICIA JULIANA 462-527 Imperial Princess in Constantinopel lørdag 10. september 11 The oldest dedication miniature in existence. Anicia Juliana in the middle Magnanimity with gold coins and Prudence with a codex. «Gratitude of the Arts» with the feets. She and a putto have the dedication copy. In outer spandels putti working as masons and carpenters. lørdag 10. september 11 THE CHURCH OF ST. POLYEUCTUS The church was built 512-13 by Anacia Juliana. It was the largest church of Constantionpel before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. The site of the church was rediscovered during excavations in the 1960s. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 The building survived until the 11th century, after which it fell into decay, while several architectural elements were removed and reused in Constantinople and other cities. The sculptures have been removed to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 HAIL, OH PRINCESS, HONORATAE EXTOLS AND GLORIFIES YOU WITH ALL FINE PRAISES: FOR MAGNANIMITY (MEGALOPSYCHIA) ALLOWS YOU TO BE MENTIONED OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD. YOU BELONG TO THE FAMILY OF THE ANICII, AND YOU HAVE BUILT A TEMPLE OF THE LORD, RAISED HIGH AND BEAUTIFUL. lørdag 10. september 11 lørdag 10. september 11 BIBLIOGRAFI Brubaker, Leslie: «The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana» i Byzantine Garden Culture, Washington D.C. 2002 Dioscorides, Pedanius; Der Wiener Dioskurides: Codex medicus Graecus 1 und 2 Akademische Druck-u Verlaganstalt, Graz 1998 und 1999 Kiilerich, Bente; Billedet af Anicia Juliana i Dioskourides-manuskriptet i Wien. Bysantinska sällskapet Bulletin 18, 2000, s.5-15 lørdag 10. september 11 BIBLIOGRAFI Kiilerich, Bente; The Image of Anicia Juliana in the Vienna Dioscurides: Flattery or Appropriation of Imperial Imagery; Symbolae Osloenses 76, 2001, s. 169-190 http://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/ Der_Wiener_Dioscorides http://kunsthistorie.com/fagwiki/ Kategori:Der_Wiener_Dioscurides lørdag 10. september 11 THANKS! NINA ALDIN THUNE KUNSTHISTORIE.COM lørdag 10. september 11.
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