05-10-2019, 07:34 PM
(05-10-2019, 07:02 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My very first thoughts upon seeing the rosettes page were either that it was a record of a journey (like a visual journal), or an itinerary map in strip-map form, or possibly a reference to Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem (or maybe Rome). It has always looked like a map to me.
I had a very literal interpretation of it for a long time. Now I'm trying to look at it in as many different ways as possible.
My interpretation is pretty literal, though I am not quite sure what one means by literal as in my interpretation there are distinctive features such as the central rosette representing a significant thing or an important person. I have my own idea about what I term as "rays" which emanate from the central rosette to the four side rosettes, so that is a little different. The centre side rosettes I view in 3 cases as representing a feature at a location whether it be a rose window or a ceiling(In the other case I see it as a drawing associated with a location). But overall, yes, I still conclude it is a map despite its eccentricities.