25-03-2017, 12:59 PM
I also think it could be a mirror. Interestingly, the color inside the "ring" was left bright. If it is a ring, it should have the darker color of the background, right ? This of course depends on how the coloring of the VMS was done in general.
Could it be Venus instead of Aphrodite ? The children of Venus are often represented as bathing men and women ( here the smaller nymphs?). I couldn't find something directly comparable, but this Venus from "De Sphaera" seems to hold a mirror in her hand. Correct me if I am wrong.
![[Image: venus.png]](http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mwille2/VMS/venus.png)
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena, De Sphaera, Ms.lat. 209,
folio 9v. Venus, Christoforo de Predis, Around 1470
Could it be Venus instead of Aphrodite ? The children of Venus are often represented as bathing men and women ( here the smaller nymphs?). I couldn't find something directly comparable, but this Venus from "De Sphaera" seems to hold a mirror in her hand. Correct me if I am wrong.
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena, De Sphaera, Ms.lat. 209,
folio 9v. Venus, Christoforo de Predis, Around 1470