25-10-2017, 07:05 PM
I find it interesting that the image of Cassiopeia from Canterbury Cathedral is like a chain of associations...
The field of color around her feet is very blue, and it's round...
which in turn reminded me of a baptismal font (blue for the water)... baptismal fonts were in many of these churches...
which in turn caught my attention because the figure in the VMS has her feet in a rounded vessel painted blue (with a cloudband-shape surrounding it, which may denote something holy), and she's not entirely naked, she has a fancy headdress (as the figure in the cathedral glass has a crown).
And yet the VMS still hints at a biological association (the blue vessel at her feet is very womb-like).
The field of color around her feet is very blue, and it's round...
which in turn reminded me of a baptismal font (blue for the water)... baptismal fonts were in many of these churches...
which in turn caught my attention because the figure in the VMS has her feet in a rounded vessel painted blue (with a cloudband-shape surrounding it, which may denote something holy), and she's not entirely naked, she has a fancy headdress (as the figure in the cathedral glass has a crown).
And yet the VMS still hints at a biological association (the blue vessel at her feet is very womb-like).