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Her glittering genealogy aside, Juliana is primarily remembered as one of the first non-reigning female patrons of art in recorded history. From what little we know about her personal predilections, it appears that she "directly intervened in determining the content, as well, perhaps, as the style"
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Eudocia the empress, eager to honor God, first built here a temple of
Polyektos the servant of God. But she did not make it as great and beautiful as it is... because her prophetic soul told her that she would leave a family well knowing how to adorn it. Whence Juliana, the glory of her blessed
279:, who has been associated with her literary circle. Whether Juliana entertained political ambitions of her own is uncertain, but it is known that her husband declined to take up the crown during the 512 riots. Although she resolutely opposed the
397:'yearning of the creation-lover', added in a later scribe's handwriting, interpreted as "the Desire to build", "the Love of building", or "the Desire of the building-loving woman". The same hand has labelled the central figure as
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parents, inheriting their royal blood in the fourth generation, did not disappoint the hopes of the empress, the mother of a noble race, but raised this from a small temple to its present size and beauty. (
431:) as having given the codex to Anicia Juliana. She probably received the book in gratitude for her having built a church in the town. The inscription is corroborated by the 8th–9th-century chronicler
543:, it was the largest church in the imperial capital, and its construction was probably seen as a challenge to the reigning dynasty. The dedicatory inscription compares Juliana to King
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was built on her extensive family estates during the last three years of her life, with the goal of highlighting her illustrious pedigree which ran back to
Theodosius I and
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Of her architectural projects, we know only three churches which she commissioned to be erected and embellished in
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The badly damaged encircling inscription proclaims
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of Anicia
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in a notice of the year 512 that Anicia
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whilst only a child and married the niece of the emperor
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in 491. With her husband, she spent her life at the pre-
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