This is the world of the Très Riches Heures, arguably the greatest and most valuable of all medieval illuminated manuscripts. Commissioned by the Duc de Berry, the enormously wealthy brother of King ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has received a gift of 38 rare manuscript pages by Italian artists spanning the 12th to 17th ...

Medieval globalization may seem like an oxymoron. After all, this fall, historians claimed 536 was the worst year in human history to be alive.The medieval period in Europe is typically thought to ...

It is the largest and latest dated (1220) of a 500-year series of Spanish Medieval illuminated commentaries on the Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation. The Book of Revelation, the last book of the ...

Nestled in the heart of Sarajevo, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina houses one of the most extraordinary treasures of Jewish heritage—the Sarajevo Haggadah. This illuminated manuscript, a ...

In their effort to retain relevance in this brave new world, they came full circle, revisiting at last the tradition that predated it all: medieval illuminations. Flourishing in the years leading up ...