03-04-2016, 09:04 AM
(03-04-2016, 01:03 AM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many more patterns could have been drawn into these zodiac illustrations, if they were there to make things look 'better'. Instead, the VMs Zodiac presents all you ever wanted to know about heraldry and more, in just three pages - Pisces and the Aries pair.
Isn't it much more likely that some pages are embellished and others aren't? If the alternative is that a sudden lesson about heraldry is crammed into the Pisces and Aries pages? Why these pages? Why in the tubs? What's the intent? Are there any historical parallels for any of this? Heraldry on a series of tubs with naked ladies?
You know, when children start going to school, one of the exercises they do is to draw exactly those patterns. Entire pages filled with the lines of heraldry are produced by kindergartens around the world, every week. That doesn't make them medieval scriptoria.
Just to say, it's not because these patterns are also seen in heraldry, that they actually are heraldry. They could be, but to be convincing we need much more than a superficial resemblance, like JKP says:
Quote:It wouldn't surprise me if parallels to heraldry were found, since it was so pervasive, but it will be a challenge to determine whether they come directly from heraldry and add significance to the text or to the people in the illustrations