Hildegard von Bingen made fairly frequent use of overlapping-scale motifs in her cosmological drawings, and also combined these with busts of people poking up from textures within wheels. Von Bingen's were religious in content, but the same textural choices could be applied in other ways (as in VMS bathing pictures, people-poking-up pictures, rosettes, etc.)...
Here are a couple of quick examples...
![[Image: hildegard-von-bingen-scivias-i.3-god-cos....600x0.jpg]](https://arthistoryproject.com/site/assets/files/12534/hildegard-von-bingen-scivias-i.3-god-cosmos-and-humanity-1165-trivium-art-history.600x0.jpg)
![[Image: 800px-07angels-hildegard_von_bingen.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/07angels-hildegard_von_bingen.jpg/800px-07angels-hildegard_von_bingen.jpg)
In the VMS , the overlapping bumps often appear in the context of terrain textures.. hillsides, grottoes, maybe cloud-bumps, etc.
The "scales" are one of the VMS's recurring themes (as are the pipes).
Here are a couple of quick examples...
In the VMS , the overlapping bumps often appear in the context of terrain textures.. hillsides, grottoes, maybe cloud-bumps, etc.
The "scales" are one of the VMS's recurring themes (as are the pipes).