Illustrating Julian's Legacy

Art & Paintings

Immerse yourself in a tapestry of visual tributes,
where strokes of artistry immortalize Julian’s multifaceted essence.

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Vintage engraving of Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor.

Illustration of Julian the Apostate (331-363), Roman Emperor.

Emperor Julian II, drawing by Granger.

Julianus The Apostate, drawing by Mary Evans Picture Library.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, Roman Emperor. From the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary, 1825.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, Roman Emperor. From the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary, 1825 [colorized].

Portrait of Emperor Julian, the said Apostate.

Julian said the Apostate. Roman emperor. Engraving of Thomas from H. Rousseau.

Julianus bearded, drawing by Mary Evans Picture Library.

Julan woodcut by Rudolph Wyssenbach, printed by Andreas Gesner, 1559.

Julian the Apostata imperator. Unknown date and artist.

Vintage engraving of Julian.

Julian, Emperor of Rome. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

Portrait of Roman Emperor Julian, by Netherlandish School.

Roman Emperor Julian. Illustration by Hubert Goltzius from his work Vivae Omnium Fere Imperatorum Imagines, Antwerp 1557.

Coin from the time of Julian the Apostate.

Sculpture of the Roman Emperor Julian, 4th century AD, Paris, Musee Du Louvre.

Modern statue of Flavius Claudius Julianus. Tongeren, Belgium. Picture by Carole Raddato.

Marble bust presumed to be Flavius Claudius Julianus, Museo Capitolino, Rome, Italy.

Male Portrait Head, probably Julian the Apostate, 350-400 CE., Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Bust of Julian the Apostate in Acerenza, Italy.

Fragment of a sarcophagus with a Julian philosopher figure, c. 250. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Julian the Apostate, seen at the Musee des Beaux Arts, Orleans.

Julian's Baths, more correctly termed the Thermes.

Ancient baths called Le Palais des Thermes, supposedly built by Julian the Apostate while he was lieutenant in Gaul under Emperor Contantius. By John Breval, Esq.

Julian Crowned Emperor in Cluny, February 360, Gravure before 1870

The Thermes, The Remains of Julian's Palace, Paris.

Statue, formerly identified as Julian. Paris, Musee de Cluny.

Statue at the Musée de Cluny formerly identified as Julian.

Sassanian relief of the investiture of Ardashir II showing Mithra, Shapur II and Ahura Mazda above a defeated Julian, lying prostrate. Kermanshah, Iran.

Sassanian relief of the investiture of Ardashir II. Detail of the fallen Julian, Kermanshah, Iran.

The Column of Julian, erected in honor of the Roman Emperor Julian to Ancyra (Ankara) in 362 AD.

Porphyry sarcophagi outside the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, believed by Jean Ebersolt to be Julian's.

Turkey: Famous Architecture, Tower of Akara, stamp 1967.

Turkey: Famous Architecture, Tower of Akara, stamp 1963.

A stone block bearing an inscription [Isaiah 66:14], on the Western Wall. Julian treated the Jews kindly and attempted to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Photo: Bracha Reich.

Julianus Apostata Imp. Engraving from "Historie der Kerken en Ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het Jaar onses Heeren" 1688.

The Emperor Julian swearing the Roman soldiers to the ancient Gods. By L. Pogliaghi, ca 1885.

Using a boat: Emperor Julian the Apostate and his men bring the son of the prince of Chamaven back to his father, circa 350-363.

The defeat of Chnodomar (Chnodomar) king of the Alamans by Emperor Julian in 357 in Oberhausbergen, Strasbourg. Engraving from “Bilder-Gallerie zur allgem” by Rotteck 1843.

Subterranean fires defeat Julian's effort to rebuild the temple. James Dabney, 1877.

Julianus in Gaul, drawing by Mary Evans Picture Library.

Feast of Romulus. Title page for: Flavius Claudius Julianus Apostata, Les cesars de l'empereur Julien, 1728.

Later Roman Emperors.

Julian and Barber. When his barber presents himself in gorgeous clothes, emperor Julian observes, I ordered a narber, not a senator". Mary Evans Picture Library.

Iuliani Imp. Opera, Ioulianou Autokratoros ta Sozomena, Weidmann, Moritz Georg, Erben & Gleditsch, Johann Ludwig, 1696.

The Roman Emperor Julian gives back to the king of the Germanic people of the Chamaves his son whom he thought he had lost. Unknown, 4th century.

Interview between Julian and Frankish Chiefs, Leutemann, Gottlob Heinrich, 1882.

Old engraved illustration of death of Roman emperor Julian the Philosopher. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier, 1890.

The emperor Julian said the Apostate besieged in Senones (Sens) by the Alamans.

Victorian engraving of Roman Emperor Julian held aloft by his troops on a shield, 1880.

Death of Julian the Apostate. Engraving of Matthaeus Merian, 1657.

Roman statue traditionally identified as Julian the Apostate, France, Engraving by Lemaitre, France, premiere partie, L'Univers pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1845.

The Dream of St Basil the Great. St. Mercurius sent from heaven by Christ, stabs to death the Emperor Julian. By Paul Lacroix , London, c. 1880.

Saint Mercurius killing Emperor Julian the Apostate, 12th c. AD.

St. Mercurius on horseback, killing Julian, 16th c. Courtesy of the Michigan-Princeton-Alexandria Expeditions to Mount Sinai.

Coptic icon showing Saint Mercurius killing Julian. From the Church of St. Mercurius, Old Cairo.

St. Mercury kills the Emperor Julian the Apostate, 1200, National Library of the Netherlands.

The damnation of "the godless and lawless Julian", from the Theodore Psalter, Add MS 19352, f. 200г.

Julian the Apostate crowned by flying devils. "The Fall of Princes", c. 1450-1460. Source: Harley 1766.

Julian the Apostate: Scene, pierced by Mercurius of Caesarea. Christherre-Chronik (c. 1360). New York, Morgan Library, M.769, fol. 327r.

“Martin of Tours: Scene, before Emperor Julian” by Simone Martini. Chapel of San Martino, San Francesco, Lower Church, Assisi (1322-1326).

Julian near Ctesiphon in modern-day Iraq, from a medieval miniature.

Julian the Apostate: Scene, with Maximus the Philosopher. Gregory Nazianzen, Homilies (879-883). Paris.

The Church of the Holy Apostles, where Julian brought Constantius II to be buried. 12th century illumination on parchment, Meister der Predigten des Mönchs Johannes Kokkinobaphos, Bilbiothèque nationale de France, MS Grec 1208, folio 3.

"Death of Julian", Illustration from the "The Fall of Princes" by Giovanni Boccaccio, depicting the skin of Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus.

Legend of the Relics of St. John the Baptist. Julian appears at the front of the painting, later ordered the burning of St. John’s corpse but monks prevented the destruction of the relics.

Emperor Julian enrolls Saint Martin in the Cavalry. By Rutilio Manetti, circa 1605-1610, Italy.

St Martin of Tours receives the Investiture as Knight by Emperor Julian, by Simone Martini, 14th century fresco, Umbria, Perugia.

The martyrdom of St. Bibiana, an apocryphal story about Julian the Apostate by Sebastiano Conca, ca. 1718-22, via the British Museum, London.

Saint Mercury stabs Julian. Fresco located on the north side of the rectory of the Church of the Annunciation in the Kremlin (1547-1551).

Emperor Julian the Apostate burning the bones of St. John the Baptist. Master of the St. Johns Retable, 16th century.

A larger image of Emperor Julian advancing against the Persians at Ktesiphon, 'Commentaries of Gregory of Nazianzus', Byzantine, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Julian the Apostate. Cover by Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941. Henry Altemus.

The Ruins of the Emperor Julian's Baths, Thomas Girtin 1775–1802, Hotel De Cluny, Paris.

The death of Julian the Apostate (chromolitho) by Luca Giordano.

Tribonian presents Pandects to Emperor Julian, after Perino del Vaga; Sketch of Trophy by Felice Giani.

El Escorial, Little House of the Prince. Picture of the death of Julian the Apostate, from Jordan.

A Pagan Sacrifice by Garofalo, 1526, via the National Gallery, London.

Julian the Apostate's Dionysian Procession, Terje Adler Mørk.

Emperor Julian (Julian the Philosopher) victorious by the Persian King Shapur II in 363, The Holbarn Archive / Bridgeman Images.

Julian the Apostate presiding at a conference of Sectarians, by Edward Armitage, 1875. Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.

Flemish tapestry. Series The Honours: Infamy (La Infamia). Model cartoonists from the circle of Bernard van Orley & Jan Gossaert. Manufacture Pieter van Aelst, Brussels. Ca 1550. Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso.

Flemish tapestry. Series The Honours: Infamy (La Infamia). Detail with Emperor Julian.

Greek silver kylix depicting Helios and a Chariot. Found in Panticapaeum necropolis, 3rd century BC. The State Hermitage Museum.

Leaf disc dedicated to Sol Invictus. Silver, Roman artwork, 3rd century AD. From Pessinus, Bala-Hissar, Asia Minor.

Cameo, Julian the Apostate, Italy. XVI в.

4th-century cameo of an emperor, probably Julian, performing sacrifice, National Archaeological Museum, Florence.

Roman gold Julian the Apostate, solidus swivel pendant, Alison Barker collection, London [front].

Roman gold Julian the Apostate, solidus swivel pendant, Alison Barker collection, London [back].