green water

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I have to say that your opinion about green water not being useful in provenancing and dating imagery runs contrary to the usual opinion, which is that to represent sea-water as green was rare in Europe before the manuscript tradition was influenced by models gained from outside the Latin environment, whether Jewish or Islamic.

Hello Diane,
This post is about water, not specifically sea water.
My post above was hastily assembled and I had not realized at the time that all these images happened to depict sea water: I should have spent more time on the post to show more variety, but this was remedied by ReneZ's post. So in the end, sea or freshwater, green is common in many times and places. That is what the evidence says.
I really doubt that what we see in the Voynich "balneo" is sea water anyway, but hey why not.
Don of Talahassee wisely reminded us to back up what we say with evidence: it would be great if you could do the same (link to images, scholarly article, mainstream reference book...) for what you call "the usual opinion", etc.
Ultimately, for our purposes, it doesn't really matter where the idea of painting water green originated if evidence shows that such practice was widespread and common by the 12th Century, a full three centuries before the earliest date the Voynich was made. As I said the consequence is that this particular aspect doesn't help w/date or place. Other aspects of Voynich iconography are much more helpful.