(26-10-2017, 04:09 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And if you keep misrepresenting my arguments we won't get far either. I mean of the intended audience. What modern viewers recognise or not is irrelevant in understanding the intention of the image.
You confirm I am not misinterpreting: we just see things differently. You believe you know what the intended audience would have recognised; I don't. The best I can do is try to document myself and, on the basis of the evidence I read and observe, tentatively approximate the approach of late-medieval people. I am always bound to go wrong.
I believe that what we modern viewers can recognise is totally relevant: it is the only basis for our understanding of the intention of an image. The rest (what we cannot recognise) is by definition out of reach and the realm of pure fantasy.
We disagree, no big deal.