Caption:
Theodora I (c. 500 – 548AD), empress of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire and wife of Emperor Justinian I, from a mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1879. Illustration by Ernst Foerster, lithographed by C.R., and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.