Is there anything more exciting than the Holiday atmosphere of December? Well, maybe a brand new Women’s Wednesday! Today’s Mulier Clara is Leontion, a philosopher from Ancient Greece. Not much is known about Leontion other…

Illumination from the"Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 390r, circa 1497, British Library, London.

Back to our Women's Wednesday! After a short break (flu season hit us hard!) we are once again ready to welcome yet another guest to our column dedicated to Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris. Our Mulier…

Illumination from the manuscript "Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium", ms. Latin 8551, f. 63v, 1503, Département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Illumination from the "Breviary of Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 12r, ca. 1497, British Library, London.

We welcome November with a brand-new Women’s Wednesday. Today’s Mulier Clara is Verginia, a Roman maiden and daughter of the centurion Lucius Virginius. Verginia’s story is quite a tragic one. According to the ancient Roman…

Halloween is finally here! To celebrate this occasion, Folia Magazine offers you a collection of illuminations from a bizarre French manuscript titled "Danse Macabre" and containing the text from La danse macabre - a mural painted…

Today is the last Wednesday of the month: time for yet another Women's Wednesday! Our guest this time is Artemisia, Queen of Caria... or should we say "guests"? In his telling, Boccaccio actually merges two…

Illuminated initial, a capital P, from the "Breviary of Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 51r, ca. 1497, British Library, London.

Since the beginning of the Women’s Wednesday column, we had the chance to tell many captivating stories of goddesses, queens, maidens, and warriors. Today, for the first time ever, we introduce a painter: Thamyris, said…