# Vienna Genesis [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Greek]() - Date: 0551-0600 - Technique: Manuscript \(Codex Vindobonensis theol. graec. 31\) ## Commentary Vienna Genesis 6th century Manuscript \(Codex Vindobonensis theol. graec. 31\) Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna This miniature, taking up the entire lower half of folio 3 recto, depicts the Flood. The centre of the composition is occupied by the three-storey Ark, deep in the threatening waves, with the rain still pouring down from the thin strip of sky. Two people in the foreground are fighting for their lives in the flood waters. The body of one drowned person is beside them, other victims of the flood, some of them seen from a daringly foreshortened angle, illustrate different stages of struggle, of despair, or of destruction. In its composition and colours, the Flood miniature documents the lingering presence of a style which was prevalent in late antiquity. ## Related artworks - [Bible of Leo the Patrician]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Codex Purpureus Rossanensis \(Rossano Gospels\)]() - [Collection of Medical Texts]() - [Collection of Medical Texts]() - [Evangeliary]() - [Gospel Book]() - [Gospel Book]() - [Homer: Iliad]() - [Homilies of Ioannes Chrysostomos]() - [Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()