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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens - Bluetoes101 - 09-01-2026
(Yesterday, 06:38 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The overall layout and every detail of the drawing says "map".(shortened for clarity but - whole post)
Ok, I think we are on the same page after all. It's just "map" and "buildings" implies literal. Maybe I just use another term in "story" but a "imaginary/mythical/symbolic" map/place is pretty much what I was getting at. I think we have a theme throughout the map which tells a "story", for lack of a better term. But a drawing of a mythical place would do the same sort of thing.
In regards to the theory, I never put it out there as I feel like I debunked myself. I just meant that the thing I debunked had more legs than "literal map" but I think we just crossed terms. The theory, if you were interested, was on the cave of the patriarchs which houses the tombs of 6 biblical figures. You can match some details well and I should imagine it would be a site of holy pilgrimage with enough details for a "map" and 6 things being connected to the heavens would fit. Overall though I thought I was probably stretching and over fitting.. a lot.
Personally I'm on team "vessel" by "(if it looks like a) duck law" but I think a convincing argument for building needs to find that connection, why 6 things surrounding/supporting the sky fits.. because they don't look like buildings.
RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens - Bernd - 10-01-2026
(02-01-2026, 06:12 PM)Bluetoes101 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Interestingly though, the drawer seems to recycle some aspects between buildings in the ROS and pharma vessels, whatever that might mean.This is a trend we see throughout the VM. The artist adapts, recombines, recycles and stacks building blocks of imagery. Clearly he had access to a variety of source images, but that does not necessarily mean they were used in the same or even a similar context as in their original source. I see no reason why the same depictions should not be containers in Pharma and towers or whatever fantastic architectural feature in ROS. I think we should not over-interpret this. The artist had some source imagery (of vessels?) at hand he found interesting and thought it was fitting for the job.
The flower of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. shares some strikingly similarities with the rosette in the upper left corner. But that neither means that the rosette is a flower nor that the flower is whatever the rosette is supposed to be.