There are many anti-gravity boobs in medieval manuscripts (some of them down to the navel), but when they draw them that way, they tend to drawn them very flat (like a piece of cardboard) rather than sticking forward.
The VMS boobs are fairly unusual. I've been collecting medieval boob pics while trying to find some that are similar. I'll post them when I have enough for the patterns to be clear. They're a hoot because often the breast comes out of the collar bone (much too high) rather than the chest. Sometimes even out of the neck. I don't understand why medieval artists, who were exposed to naked-women statues, naked-women mosaics, naked-women frescoes most days of their lives (churches are covered in them) would move the boobs up six inches from where they belong (maybe Freud has a word for it).
One of the things that strikes me as unique to the VMS is that the female forms are not idolized. That's why I thought, for a very long time, that it might have been written by a doctor with a clinical viewpoint. I still think it might have been masterminded by a doctor, but I no longer assume all of the VMS is medical. Now I try to look at it from as many sides as possible.
The VMS boobs are fairly unusual. I've been collecting medieval boob pics while trying to find some that are similar. I'll post them when I have enough for the patterns to be clear. They're a hoot because often the breast comes out of the collar bone (much too high) rather than the chest. Sometimes even out of the neck. I don't understand why medieval artists, who were exposed to naked-women statues, naked-women mosaics, naked-women frescoes most days of their lives (churches are covered in them) would move the boobs up six inches from where they belong (maybe Freud has a word for it).
One of the things that strikes me as unique to the VMS is that the female forms are not idolized. That's why I thought, for a very long time, that it might have been written by a doctor with a clinical viewpoint. I still think it might have been masterminded by a doctor, but I no longer assume all of the VMS is medical. Now I try to look at it from as many sides as possible.