25-03-2020, 01:24 AM
(25-03-2020, 12:37 AM)arca_libraria wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
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.
That's actually how I feel about it too. Although a sundial might make sense in the physical world of gardens and fountains, in the VMS world (and the world of medieval illustrations in general), this kind of imagery tends to be symbolic and often the "parts" come in pairs, 4, or 8 in terms of relationships.