13-02-2018, 06:08 AM
(13-02-2018, 12:49 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your drawing of Carcassonne has a completely different kind of roof from the VMS—it doesn't match at all.
Look more closely at the VMS drawing. The central tower is a saddleback tower, which has a very specific kind of roof that was in certain regions in the Middle Ages, and which, in some areas, had globes at the top or, in other areas, had flags on the top. This form of saddleback was frequently used to indicate portals (gates to the city).
I’m quite sure the VMS depiction of Carcassonne is not a still-life landscape made while sitting outside the front door. The Cathars were expelled from Carcassonne in 1209 or thereabouts and the fortress of Montségur fell in 1244. The VMS depiction was likely made from memory going back decades.
They remembered that Carcassonne had coned towers with flag poles, that the middle tower was rectangular in shape rather than round like the ones to the side, that there were windows near the top, and they remembered the shape of the doorway under the central tower. I’m satisfied that the VMS drawing is probably depicting Carcassonne which would also correspond well with a depiction of Montségur on the same page.
Can you find a better match? I think I saw cones on some German castles.