31-03-2016, 06:32 PM
The more I look at these bifolios, the more I am convinced that the blue and Green wáter is not arbitrary, but instead a specific choice by the illustrator to illustrate a point.
I have already mentioned my theory that the descending pipes on 79-80 (esp f79v) represent a progression of some sort (I have used the example of the nymphs being assorted from the most holy at the top to the most base at the bottom, caverting with the beasts of the fields). In that illustration we also see how the wáter changes from blue at the top to Green at the bottom.
This is repeated over the bifolio.
We see it again on 78r, at the top of the page (remember the wáter goes to the other three pages here), where it is initially blue but changes to Green when it hits the water of the first pool.
Again on 77-82, some pools are Green and others blue. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.especially the right hand matriarcal figure who is standing in a personal bath of blue wáter, dipping her hand into a blue pot, but everyone else is in Green.
I have already mentioned my theory that the descending pipes on 79-80 (esp f79v) represent a progression of some sort (I have used the example of the nymphs being assorted from the most holy at the top to the most base at the bottom, caverting with the beasts of the fields). In that illustration we also see how the wáter changes from blue at the top to Green at the bottom.
This is repeated over the bifolio.
We see it again on 78r, at the top of the page (remember the wáter goes to the other three pages here), where it is initially blue but changes to Green when it hits the water of the first pool.
Again on 77-82, some pools are Green and others blue. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.especially the right hand matriarcal figure who is standing in a personal bath of blue wáter, dipping her hand into a blue pot, but everyone else is in Green.