26-07-2019, 10:55 PM
Right, I'd think that washing Christian imagery off of the images would have made them more likely to raise suspicion...
..which apparently they didn't because we still have this thing.
In my opinion the explanation for apparently de-christianized Christian motifs could be a simpler one. It is clear that the illustrator relied on various examples he had at his disposal. Marco showed this convincingly for Balneis. And we're coming closer to what the source(s) for the Zodiac centres should have been like. We know they copied and re-assembled.
So why not borrow bits and pieces from imagery that happened to be Christian? It would have been in plentiful supply...
..which apparently they didn't because we still have this thing.
In my opinion the explanation for apparently de-christianized Christian motifs could be a simpler one. It is clear that the illustrator relied on various examples he had at his disposal. Marco showed this convincingly for Balneis. And we're coming closer to what the source(s) for the Zodiac centres should have been like. We know they copied and re-assembled.
So why not borrow bits and pieces from imagery that happened to be Christian? It would have been in plentiful supply...