Hebdomades vel de imaginibus
work by Varro
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development of book illustration
- In Western painting: Book illustration in antiquity
…Terentius Varro’s 15 books of Hebdomades vel de imaginibus and a portrait of Virgil prefixed to an edition of his poems. Miniatures in the codex of the Iliad in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, were painted probably at the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century ad but…
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