Time for a new appointment with our Women's Wednesday! You may not have guessed it by the illumination above, but our guest this time is Medusa, the famous Gorgon with snakes in place of her…
Illumination from the manuscript "Recueil des rois de France", ms. Français 2848, f. 146v, 16th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Paris.
Our voyage through the pages of the De Mulieribus Claris continues today with Herophile (or Eriphila). Herophile was one of the priestesses of the Apollonian Oracle in Erythrae, in Ionia; because of this, although being born in Babilonia, she…
Welcome to a new weekly column: Folia's Floral Friday! Every week we will bring you some of the most delightful illuminations, initials, marginalia, borders, and details with a floral theme. Spring all year around! Illumination from a Book of…
A new Wednesday means, as usual, a new appointment with our weekly Women's Wednesday: our guests this time are Orithyia and Antiope, daughters of the Amazon queen Marpesia and later warrior queens themselves. The figures of both Orithyia…
Folia Magazine is back! After the sudden and unforeseen break we were forced to take (we apologize, we were a little short on time), let us resume from where we left: our weekly Women's Wednesday.…
Back to another Women's Wednesday! This time we will be focusing on Medea, surely one of the most famous women in Greek mythology, and also the protagonist of the tragedy of the same name written…
We wrap up the month of October with yet another Women’s Wednesday! The protagonist this time is Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos and daughter of Thoas and Myrina, one of the Amazon queens. During Hypsipyle’s reign as…