Koen,
You sound like an honest used car salesman, "Everything runs perfectly, - -except for this, this, this and this." If your proposed identification provides no help to access the VMs language, what should we do with it? It's an allegorical adaptation, leaving out the ugly parts, that matches more or less. Okay, that's fine. But what good is it with all these pictorial exceptions and linguistic limitations?
It shows the author may well have been an educated person, who had read Ovid. This seems a potentially valid supposition. And I have argued for an detailed knowledge of history and heraldry on the author's part.
I've also gone fishing for an alternative interpretation of these images. It's not as elaborate and doesn't include include the peripheral illustrations. As a secondary interpretation, however, I see the man of the right as an equivalent to Charon, delivering a soul to the Underworld. And as the souls rise up, in the series of images, they are greeted by Persephone, Queen of the Afterlife. And as they move past her and see the Fields of Elysium before them, they break into a run. That's what that funny extra leg-like appendage thing is - on the next to last figure on the left. It's an illustration of souls going full tilt into paradise - in a VMS sort of representation.
You sound like an honest used car salesman, "Everything runs perfectly, - -except for this, this, this and this." If your proposed identification provides no help to access the VMs language, what should we do with it? It's an allegorical adaptation, leaving out the ugly parts, that matches more or less. Okay, that's fine. But what good is it with all these pictorial exceptions and linguistic limitations?
It shows the author may well have been an educated person, who had read Ovid. This seems a potentially valid supposition. And I have argued for an detailed knowledge of history and heraldry on the author's part.
I've also gone fishing for an alternative interpretation of these images. It's not as elaborate and doesn't include include the peripheral illustrations. As a secondary interpretation, however, I see the man of the right as an equivalent to Charon, delivering a soul to the Underworld. And as the souls rise up, in the series of images, they are greeted by Persephone, Queen of the Afterlife. And as they move past her and see the Fields of Elysium before them, they break into a run. That's what that funny extra leg-like appendage thing is - on the next to last figure on the left. It's an illustration of souls going full tilt into paradise - in a VMS sort of representation.