Renaissance

This is my Renaissance page layout.  My rendition was inspired by Geoffroy Tory's pages from Horae in Laudem Beautissim ce Virginis Mariae (Hours of Our Excelent Virgin Mary), 1541.  This was a religious text that's function was to spread ideas/views of the church.  He decorated his pages with borders filled with natural plant and animal illustrations in an outline like style so they could be easily coloured in by hand later.  This detailed border illustrations were typical for the time and the audience would be expecting this kind of decoration and religious content.