(26-04-2016, 06:42 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A canopy above, is clearly there in the VMs. But in the Vatican example, there is the starry dome, the rainbow and God on his throne , as I interpret the illustration. Where is the canopy?
Describing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as a canopy was certainly inappropriate, I apologize.
The canopy and the starred dome are related motifs and domes were often decorated with “sky canopies”. This seems to me to be the case with Wynaldus' dome.
“You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: 1250-1310 : an Illustrated Index” lists examples of XIII Century Italian domes decorated with a “sky canopy” (for instance, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
See also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (“Visions of heaven - the_dome in European architecture”) which at p.166 describes the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in Ravenna as a “sky canopy”.
Also (p.169): “The form of the dome itself had, long before the onset of Islam in the seventh century, been regarded by its people as inherently symbolic, a heavenly canopy”.
The vault of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has been described as a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as well.
I should have expressed myself more correctly:
- Above: a canopy (VMS) and a vault decorated with a sky canopy (Wynandus)
(26-04-2016, 06:42 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And precipitation below. The VMs appears to strongly indicate the flow of some kind of fluid. While in the Vatican example, there are vertical lines, some circles and some plain nebuly lines at the base of the rainbow on either side. Much of this is painted brown, potentially representing the earth in the background. It doesn't look like the generation of precipitation is a significant aspect of the Vatican illustration.
Wynandus describes an apocalyptic scene. A rain of fire? I tried to get more information from the text, but it's too long and hard to read, I am sorry. The parallel between the two illustrations is that the vertical lines indicate "something falling from the sky". I would say, rain in the VMS and hail or worst in Vynandus' prophecy. I hoped that "precipitation" could be generic enough to encompass all the possibilities.