03-10-2020, 08:25 PM
Koen.
I have read, and you as well, perhaps, that there was a proliferation of the fleece motif in the period after the establishment of the the order. However as to any sort of immediate source for the myth of the design of the physical representation, there doesn't seem to be any info (or at least I haven't seen it).
Independent origination is possible in the depiction of common objects. And, just in browsing pictures of subsequent replicas, there is a lack of precision. There are variations, Even those reversed head for tail. Are you expecting a greater degree of image standardization to exist prior to the establishment of the order, than what we can see has come afterwards? For me, it's like the patterns in the cloud-bands, each artist is unique. Similarities are hard to come by, unless examples come from a particular source.
One significant and unfortunate thing to be noted about the KBR, the Duke of Berry's Library, etc, is the number of lost manuscripts, well over half. Who knows what is missing? A recent (1400-1430), illustrated version of Jason and the Argonauts, or an imported copy of Shirakatsi's tables and diagrams?
I have read, and you as well, perhaps, that there was a proliferation of the fleece motif in the period after the establishment of the the order. However as to any sort of immediate source for the myth of the design of the physical representation, there doesn't seem to be any info (or at least I haven't seen it).
Independent origination is possible in the depiction of common objects. And, just in browsing pictures of subsequent replicas, there is a lack of precision. There are variations, Even those reversed head for tail. Are you expecting a greater degree of image standardization to exist prior to the establishment of the order, than what we can see has come afterwards? For me, it's like the patterns in the cloud-bands, each artist is unique. Similarities are hard to come by, unless examples come from a particular source.
One significant and unfortunate thing to be noted about the KBR, the Duke of Berry's Library, etc, is the number of lost manuscripts, well over half. Who knows what is missing? A recent (1400-1430), illustrated version of Jason and the Argonauts, or an imported copy of Shirakatsi's tables and diagrams?