A material study / 065
Aquarius: The January Feast
Chantilly · Lapis cloth, gold leaf & winter linen.
A blue-and-gold palette after the January feast in the Très Riches Heures. Lapis cloth, gilt and pale linen become the materials of an imagined winter dining room, with the manuscript’s source kept beside the colour.
01 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
02 / Play with the composition
Keep blue as the ground, or open the linen.
Explore the balance of six screen colours. The metallic samples supply colour references, not a simulation of real gold or silver.
Palette proportions / Total 100%
Starting points
An editable screen composition; the room remains a fixed imagined reference.
White Linen: 30%; Walnut: 15%; Gold Leaf: 10%; Silver Ewer: 10%; Lapis Wool: 20%; Indigo Velvet: 15%
The source / Art history
A month above the scene.
Painted by the Limbourg brothers in 1411–1416, the January calendar miniature presents the Duke of Berry’s New Year feast, with a richly dressed court and gold table vessels. The Sun’s chariot passes from Capricorn to Aquarius. Blue cloth, warm metal and pale linen become an imagined winter room, without claiming to reconstruct the feast or identify its pigments.
Château de Chantilly · January, folio 1 verso ↗Read the holding institution’s record. No museum photograph or manuscript scan is reproduced here.
The calendar / Computed
The dates, in two frames.
Tropical
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-01-20 01:37 UTC
Next sign: 2026-02-18 15:43 UTC
Sidereal · Lahiri
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-02-12 22:28 UTC
Next sign: 2026-03-14 19:22 UTC
Intervals include the entry and exclude the next boundary. Sidereal offset at ingress: 24.2220° (Lahiri). Sign transitions are refined to one minute. Refinement is computational resolution, not a claim of observational accuracy. Local calendar dates may differ from UTC.
Calculation source and version
Lunologium source revision 4d4d8ecc · astronomy-engine 2.1.19. Generated reference for 2026–2028; year labels identify the year of entry, so a Capricorn interval continues into the next January.
Take away / A constellation card
Aquarius, point by point.
This chart uses numerical star data supplied by HEASARC, a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. Hoffleit & Warren, Bright Star Catalogue (1991) · Data-use terms.
North up, east left. Relative visual magnitude controls dot size. Positions use J2000.0 and a local projection with a cosine correction. The connecting lines were authored for this card; constellation boundaries and the Sun’s current position are not drawn. Print on A4 or Letter in portrait orientation.
Read the star coordinates
| Star | HR | Right ascension | Declination |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86 Aqr | 8789 | 346.6704 | -23.7431 |
| 88 Aqr | 8812 | 347.3617 | -21.1725 |
| 99 Aqr | 8906 | 351.5117 | -20.6419 |
| 98 Aqr | 8892 | 350.7425 | -20.1006 |
| 76Del Aqr | 8709 | 343.6625 | -15.8208 |
| 105Ome2Aqr | 8988 | 355.6804 | -14.545 |
| 33Iot Aqr | 8418 | 331.6092 | -13.8697 |
| 71Tau2Aqr | 8679 | 342.3979 | -13.5925 |
| 2Eps Aqr | 7950 | 311.9192 | -9.4958 |
| 93Psi2Aqr | 8858 | 349.4758 | -9.1825 |
| 91Psi1Aqr | 8841 | 348.9729 | -9.0878 |
| 43The Aqr | 8499 | 334.2083 | -7.7833 |
| 73Lam Aqr | 8698 | 343.1537 | -7.5797 |
| 90Phi Aqr | 8834 | 348.5808 | -6.0489 |
| 22Bet Aqr | 8232 | 322.8896 | -5.5711 |
| 3 Aqr | 7951 | 311.9342 | -5.0278 |
| 48Gam Aqr | 8518 | 335.4142 | -1.3872 |
| 34Alp Aqr | 8414 | 331.4458 | -0.3197 |
| 62Eta Aqr | 8597 | 338.8392 | -0.1175 |
| 55Zet2Aqr | 8559 | 337.2087 | -0.02 |
Tradition / Historical classification
A note on the tradition.
In the traditional classification recorded by Lunologium, Aquarius is fixed air, with Saturn as its traditional ruler. These are cultural categories, separate from the computed solar position and the colours sampled for this study.
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
The January Feast
A blue-and-gold palette after the January feast in the Très Riches Heures. Lapis cloth, gilt and pale linen become the materials of an imagined winter dining room, with the manuscript’s source kept beside the colour.
The same palette. Different roles.
Use this palette.
A suggested interface use of the study’s paper and accent. Supporting ink is added for legibility; original palette values stay intact.
#D6C8B9Supporting ink #171615Accent #0D1127Inspect application CSS
/* Sourced from Chromologium (https://chromologium.com/studies/aquarius) */
/* Suggested application roles; original palette preserved separately. */
:root {
--study-surface: #D6C8B9;
--study-ink: #171615;
--study-accent: #0D1127;
--study-accent-ink: #ffffff;
--study-original-1: #D6C8B9; /* White Linen */
--study-original-2: #582F1F; /* Walnut */
--study-original-3: #C48F42; /* Gold Leaf */
--study-original-4: #958272; /* Silver Ewer */
--study-original-5: #162F6D; /* Lapis Wool */
--study-original-6: #0D1127; /* Indigo Velvet */
}
Follow the material further.
Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
Take away
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Sources & interpretation
A contemporary material tray and imagined blue dining room, informed by a linked historical source. The six screen colours were sampled from this study’s specimen drawer; they are not measured historical pigments.
- Château de Chantilly — January, Limbourg brothers, 1411–1416
- Lunologium — Tropical and sidereal zodiac
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions