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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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The Church celebrates today, on December 26, the feast day of Saint Stephen. As the original Protomartyr, Stephen is considered one of the most important Saints of all Christianity. His death is described in detail in…
Folia Magazine wishes a Merry Christmas to all our followers and their loved ones! "Nativity", illumination from the "Book of Hours, use of Rome", ms. Egerton 2045, f. 82r, c. 1460 - c. 1470, British…
"Charles V's banquet", illumination from the manuscript "Grandes Chroniques de France", ms. Français 2813, f. 473v, ca. 1375-1380, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. This illumination depicts the banquet offered by Charles V of France in honor of…
Today marks the last day of this year's Hanukkah (or Chanukkah), the eight-day Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights or the Feast of Dedication. The name Hanukkah, meaning 'dedication', 'inauguration', 'consecration', indicates…
On December 19, 1997, exactly twenty years ago, theaters all across North America welcomed what would have been one of the most successful movies of all time: James Cameron's Titanic. While many had thought of…
"Charlemagne", illumination from the manuscript "Les Grandes chroniques de France", ms. Royal 16 G VI, f. 165r, between 1332 and 1350, British Library, London. The illumination above portrays Charlemagne's visions of the Milky Way and…
On December 17, 1538, Pope Paul III proclaimed the excommunication of King Henry VIII of England. Henry's role in initiating the English Reformation is well-known, along with his many infamous remarriages that originally sparked the schism. Despite…
December 15, AD 37, Antium: the future Roman Emperor, Nero, was born. As the only son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, Nero was related to both Caligula and Augustus. After the death of…
"Juno", illumination from the manuscript "Ovide moralisé", ms. Fr. 176, f. 57r, 1380-1390, Bibliothèque de Genève, Geneva. The peacock came to see Juno, because he could not accept with equanimity the fact that the goddess had…
December 13 is Saint Lucy's Day, a Christian festivity of great popularity in Scandinavia, Italy, Hungary and Croatia. The feast day commemorates the 3rd-century martyr: according to legend, Lucy was a young Sicilian whose father had…
