manuscript illumination

June 4, 2023
Today is Trinity Sunday, celebrated in the Western Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost as a day to focus on the doctrine that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at once.

July 15, 2019
The Illuminating Lives of Gherardo, Bartolommeo and Monte del Fora

February 7, 2019
7 February is the anniversary of the translation of the relics of St. Romuald in 1481 from his burial site in Val di Castro, where he died in 1027, to Fabriano.

May 5, 2017
Painter, architect and illuminator Giovannino de’ Grassi is first documented on 5 May 1389, when the Duomo of Milan bought a paintbrush for him.

March 31, 2015
Renaissance Splendors of the Northern Italian Courts runs March 31 through June 21, 2015 at The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

November 17, 2014
Zanobi Strozzi was born in Florence on 17 November 1412.

September 17, 2014
Villa I Tatti On this day in 1440 the Florentine humanist Francesco Berlinghieri was born.

August 10, 2014
Today is the Feast of St. Lawrence (San Lorenzo), who died on 10 August 258 in Rome.

June 7, 2014
thegetty : Medieval family motto week continues!

May 4, 2014
Polyptych with the Crucifixion and Saints Nicholas, Bartholomew, Florentius, and Luke , about 1315–20.