(06-11-2021, 12:37 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For the majority of the nude figures though? Would they really do that, draw so many nude portraits of women they knew? Is there any precedent, apart from characters in stories?
Well, if many ( or even all ) nymphs should depict real persons, then that would certainly be unique. It would be against some ( medieval ) conventions and surely a good reason to hide the content of the VMS.
Nudity was considered taboo by the church with real people. On the other hand, it was also considered ascetic, but this does not affect the visual language of the VMS.