12-07-2016, 06:20 PM
Thanks Helmut,
Lobate is the best example. But there is a problem with that, as far as I can see currently, and that is that nature is irregular in this instance and the lobes have different permutations of size and shape. So if the artist is drawing from nature, why wouldn't the illustration represent the irregularity found in nature? Why draw a representation of a standard nebuly line - unless it can't be avoided.
To me, it's the imposed regularity of the line as a visual motif, or whatever you want to call it. Irregularity replaced by an imposed regularity. And it shares a commonality with heraldry in the form of the nebuly line.
So the question I have is how do other herbal manuscripts represent lobate? And more specifically, does anyone know an instance in these other [non-VMs] illustrations where a nebuly line was used?
I'm not sure what it is, but the VMs affinity for the use of nebuly lines seems to indicate something. There are so many other examples and instances where it *does not occur*. Why would the VMs artist have been someone to have known and used the nebuly motif?
Lobate is the best example. But there is a problem with that, as far as I can see currently, and that is that nature is irregular in this instance and the lobes have different permutations of size and shape. So if the artist is drawing from nature, why wouldn't the illustration represent the irregularity found in nature? Why draw a representation of a standard nebuly line - unless it can't be avoided.
To me, it's the imposed regularity of the line as a visual motif, or whatever you want to call it. Irregularity replaced by an imposed regularity. And it shares a commonality with heraldry in the form of the nebuly line.
So the question I have is how do other herbal manuscripts represent lobate? And more specifically, does anyone know an instance in these other [non-VMs] illustrations where a nebuly line was used?
I'm not sure what it is, but the VMs affinity for the use of nebuly lines seems to indicate something. There are so many other examples and instances where it *does not occur*. Why would the VMs artist have been someone to have known and used the nebuly motif?