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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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Decorated initial "C", illumination from the manuscript "Scriptores historiae Augustae", ms. Sp Coll Hunterian Ds.2.7., f. N6v, 1475, University of Glasgow Library.
Folia Magazine is finally back from our winter break! We take this opportunity to wish all of you a happy new year, as we resume our regular posting by welcoming a new Mulier Clara to…
Today's Women's Wednesday marks our last appointment with a new Mulier Clara before our Holidays break: the protagonist of our story today is Iole, a surprisingly cunning young woman from Greek mythology. While multiple versions of…
Oh, all flowers in time bend towards the sunI know you say that there's no-one for youBut here is one "All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun", Jeff Buckley ft. Elizabeth Fraser. Illumination from a Cistercian…
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…
On December 11, the world celebrates International Mountain Day! This year marks the 15th anniversary of the event, which was officially established by the UN General Assembly in 2003. The importance of mountains lies not only…
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…
