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Folia Magazine wishes all of you the happiest of Holidays with this delicate, lantern-lit Nativity scene! This incredible illumination is included in a luxury Book…
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The cover page of the Paradiso displays an architectural structure that is complex yet light, almost like a triumphal arch. It gets its extraordinary lightness…
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As the three poets continue their journey through Purgatory, they reach the sixth Terrace, where souls are punished for the sin of Gluttony. Statius, Virgil,…
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"Last Supper", historiated initial "C", cutting from a Florentine Gradual, ms. M.653, no. 4 (II.25), between 1392 and 1399, Pierpont Morgan Library, Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, New York. The illumination we present on…
Palm Sunday (celebrated today by Western Christianity, while Orthodox Palm Sunday will fall exactly one week from now) marks the start of the Christian Holy Week. This week, then, Folia Magazine will take a look…
We celebrate today World Water Day, an annual event established by the United Nations in 1993. The goal of World Water Day is to bring the many water challenges of our era back to the attention…
"Garden", illumination from the manuscript "Carmina Regia" by Convenevole da Prato, ms. Royal 6 E IX, f. 15v, c. 1335 - c. 1340, British Library, London. As of the March equinox occurring today (although the astronomical equinox was…
The Church celebrates today the feast day of Saint Joseph, a descendant of King David, husband of the Virgin Mary, and putative father of Jesus. Saint Joseph is considered to be one of the patron…
On the occasion of the feast day of Saint Patrick, Folia Magazine presents an illumination portraying one of the most peculiar legends surrounding the Saint. The illumination above, in fact, depicts the Baptism of Aengus, King of…
"Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi?" ("You too, Brutus, my son?") On March 15, 44 BC, the Ides of March, Julius Caesar is assassinated in the Roman Senate by a group of conspirators. The phrase he allegedly…
March 14 marks Pi Day, the annual celebration of the mathematical sign and number π. In mathematics, as most know, the symbol is used to represent the constant that links together the circumference and the diameter of…
On March 12, 1088, Pope Urban II was elected by acclamation at a small council in Terracina. Urban, born Eudes around 1042, was from a noble family living near Châtillon-sur-Marne. As a boy, Eudes studied in Reims,…
"Red rose", illumination from a collection of motets, ms. Royal 11 E XI, f. 3r, 1516, British Library, London. The illumination above consists of a circular staff in contra-tenor enclosing a rose. The page belongs…
