05-06-2020, 11:30 AM
That's the beauty of it. If it were the same as others, we would glance through it, maybe reference it in a paper, and that would be it. On to the next one.
What if it's a family project?
What if the illustrator was 16 years old, methodical, with a certain amount of talent, but not fully trained yet?
What if it's a late-15th-century copy of an earlier original by an amateur?
What if it's a person born into one culture but raised in another?
What if parts of it were dictated to the illustrator from unillustrated manuscripts (of which there are MANY) and the illustrator had to create some of the drawings from imagination rather than from exemplars?
Certainly there's something different about it, but being different doesn't mean it's modern. It's different in a modern context also. It's different in any context. Probably the circumstances under which it was created were different.
What if it's a family project?
What if the illustrator was 16 years old, methodical, with a certain amount of talent, but not fully trained yet?
What if it's a late-15th-century copy of an earlier original by an amateur?
What if it's a person born into one culture but raised in another?
What if parts of it were dictated to the illustrator from unillustrated manuscripts (of which there are MANY) and the illustrator had to create some of the drawings from imagination rather than from exemplars?
Certainly there's something different about it, but being different doesn't mean it's modern. It's different in a modern context also. It's different in any context. Probably the circumstances under which it was created were different.