17-07-2020, 04:18 PM
I am not sure why Melusine flying around as a dragon links to the nymph in the fish mouth, there is no similar imagery there, except that you have given the possibility of the fish nymph as matching other renditions of Melusine with fishier tails. Seems like a stretch, especially in that the nymph does not have a fish tail at all.
Similarly, the Agnes dea and golden fleece bear no resemblance to each other nor any other connection other than the Duke of Burgundy idea, and as sheep related. But this is only a possibility for the vms creature, to which they are both being linked, which to me more resembles a goat.
In both cases no attempt has been made to pull in the rest of the imagery, as if it is all just nonsensical added background for these possibilities you offer. But they are obviously not the topic of these drawings as a whole, there is only one of each amongst many others of a more cohesive nature having nothing to do with animals of any kind, and not much more in the way of linking to Burgundy that i can see.
Not that i don't think it is possible for there to be such connections, but what would they have been trying to say? There would have had to have been a purpose beyond "i think i will draw a version of something i saw in the duke's library. And then, i will draw another one which has the added benefit of being able to be mistaken for the logo of the order he started."
I found this page, maybe it can help you pull the bits together. The idea of ancestral connections deserve further research.
Much of the scholarly literature on the Mélusine romances has focused on the heroine’s fairy nature, with little attention directed towards the pseudo-historical narrative of the Lusignan sons’ crusading adventures and dynastic expansion into the eastern Mediterranean. This paper examines the place of the Poitevin tale within Burgundian court culture by analysing a selection of literary, historical, and artistic representations of the Lusignan romance. By contextualising the various representations of the legend against the socio-political interests and experiences shared by members of the Burgundian court across the period, this paper highlights how the theme of western engagement with the east consistently informed or shaped individual and/or collective reception of the Mélusine
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Similarly, the Agnes dea and golden fleece bear no resemblance to each other nor any other connection other than the Duke of Burgundy idea, and as sheep related. But this is only a possibility for the vms creature, to which they are both being linked, which to me more resembles a goat.
In both cases no attempt has been made to pull in the rest of the imagery, as if it is all just nonsensical added background for these possibilities you offer. But they are obviously not the topic of these drawings as a whole, there is only one of each amongst many others of a more cohesive nature having nothing to do with animals of any kind, and not much more in the way of linking to Burgundy that i can see.
Not that i don't think it is possible for there to be such connections, but what would they have been trying to say? There would have had to have been a purpose beyond "i think i will draw a version of something i saw in the duke's library. And then, i will draw another one which has the added benefit of being able to be mistaken for the logo of the order he started."
I found this page, maybe it can help you pull the bits together. The idea of ancestral connections deserve further research.
Much of the scholarly literature on the Mélusine romances has focused on the heroine’s fairy nature, with little attention directed towards the pseudo-historical narrative of the Lusignan sons’ crusading adventures and dynastic expansion into the eastern Mediterranean. This paper examines the place of the Poitevin tale within Burgundian court culture by analysing a selection of literary, historical, and artistic representations of the Lusignan romance. By contextualising the various representations of the legend against the socio-political interests and experiences shared by members of the Burgundian court across the period, this paper highlights how the theme of western engagement with the east consistently informed or shaped individual and/or collective reception of the Mélusine
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