Garden of Virtues

[arca_libraria]

There's also the matter why a sun should be in.the centre of the four figures.

Exactly. I know there are several problems with my suggestion that the VMS image might be related to or an interpretation of the images of "luxuria" in medieval treatises on virtues and vices.

I liked JKP's suggestion that we're looking top-down at a fountain with a sun-dial in the centre, hence the sun in the middle of the illustration, but there's still a lot that doesn't work or needs additional support to make sense of this. I feel like we should be reading the sun and moon pages together, but I'm not sure if any of this can be applied to the moon diagram on the next page.