03-06-2016, 07:34 PM
Just to briefly come back to the point of constellation sex changes. This seems especially frequent in works derived from the Roman tradition. Their constellations were often drawn naked but without visible genitals, and to make it worse, some of their artists had the habit of drawing the male chest with two "circles" on it, making the whole thing quite androgynous and a nightmare for copyists. It wasn't all man-to-woman though. Cod. Sang. 250 has a rather interesting Virgo, who looks just like - nay, I shan't say.