Thanks for your comments. My only contention about the creator of the VMs is that it was someone who was somehow aware of and familiar with these various factors that came from the Berry library and the Burgundian court and library.
As to the double rainbow of VMs f82v, there have been several prior identifications from various sources, well prior to any of my investigations. That being said, an artist desiring to represent a rainbow just goes ahead and does the best s/he can. An artist wishing to represent a disguised or hidden rainbow has other problems. How to create object that might be a rainbow, or might not be a rainbow? Ambiguity is one option - the use of muddy colors, etc. A second option is 'dilution' of the image. Combine the ambiguous rainbow with other objects that look even less like a potential rainbow. Having seen some of the false-rainbow /non-rainbow objects already, the ambiguous, real rainbow just looks like another non-rainbow object.
There is no way IMO, that anyone can look at the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. illustration and jump directly to the Burgundian explanation. However a rainbow is a rainbow, and while depictions may not be visually similar, the phenomenon referenced by the depiction is equivalent, even when the image is grisaille.
While it is clear that illustrations in the VMs are open to various interpretations, the point I'm trying to make is this: if item 1 has several interpretations - A, B, C; and item 2 has several interpretations - C, D, E; then item 3 has interpretations - W, X, Y, C; then it is time to pay more attention to the common factor ( C ), and determine whether it is applicable in other situations. The historical situation involved in this rainbow investigation provides a potential explanation that fits in with research on several other VMs topics.
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As to the double rainbow of VMs f82v, there have been several prior identifications from various sources, well prior to any of my investigations. That being said, an artist desiring to represent a rainbow just goes ahead and does the best s/he can. An artist wishing to represent a disguised or hidden rainbow has other problems. How to create object that might be a rainbow, or might not be a rainbow? Ambiguity is one option - the use of muddy colors, etc. A second option is 'dilution' of the image. Combine the ambiguous rainbow with other objects that look even less like a potential rainbow. Having seen some of the false-rainbow /non-rainbow objects already, the ambiguous, real rainbow just looks like another non-rainbow object.
There is no way IMO, that anyone can look at the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. illustration and jump directly to the Burgundian explanation. However a rainbow is a rainbow, and while depictions may not be visually similar, the phenomenon referenced by the depiction is equivalent, even when the image is grisaille.
While it is clear that illustrations in the VMs are open to various interpretations, the point I'm trying to make is this: if item 1 has several interpretations - A, B, C; and item 2 has several interpretations - C, D, E; then item 3 has interpretations - W, X, Y, C; then it is time to pay more attention to the common factor ( C ), and determine whether it is applicable in other situations. The historical situation involved in this rainbow investigation provides a potential explanation that fits in with research on several other VMs topics.
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