# Vita Annos [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript \(Hs. 945\) ## Commentary Vita Annos c. 1183 Manuscript \(Hs. 945\) Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek, Darmstadt Folio 1v of the manuscript shows Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne with the five churches he founded. Archbishop Anno II \(1056-1175\) was the last great bishop-cum-builder in Cologne. His death saw the end of first great building boom in the city which gave Cologne its high rank amongst the principal European cities during the Romanesque period. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()