The Vatican Film Library holds more than 200 full or partial facsimiles of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. A manuscript facsimile is a published, printed photographic reproduction that captures ...

Feb. 18 is the feast of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter of the early Italian Renaissance. When Pope John ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

Portrait of who is believed to be Raffaella Aleotti, and illuminated manuscript with a musician of color. Soloists, Instrumentalists and Co ...