30-08-2019, 09:16 PM
(30-08-2019, 12:06 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(30-08-2019, 05:40 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why do you think there are so many zodiac folios missing? The clothed and nude figures don't have to be symmetrical.
There are two pages for the sign of Aries, one clothed and one nude, and there are two pages for the sign of Taurus, one clothed and one nude. What makes you think it shouldn't be the same for all twelve signs of the zodiac?
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First of all, because it's a very huge assumption.
Second, because the drawings ARE ON THE BACKS of the folios of the other drawings. The pages cannot be missing if the front of one has the first zodiac and the back of the same leaf has the next one.
Third, because there are 15 nymphs on the pages that are split into two versions and there are 30 nymphs on all the others.
I think the reason some are clothed and some are nude is because they represent different things, not because there are a whole bunch of folios missing.