25-12-2021, 07:58 PM
@Linda
Thank you for your reply and the interesting perspective on the 'mythological continuum'. My initial concern is the degree to which any information regarding the Sumerian civilization might have been known to the VMs artist in the first part of the 1400s. With the excavation of Ur (C. Leonard Woolley) starting in 1922, it's even a question about what WMV might have known.
Both the clothing (tunics) and the ruins / rubble, as you suggest, might also be applied to Greece and to Rome, which would have been better known to an artist of the C-14 dates. Could characters standing on plinths be seen as statues?
We know that the astronomical / Zodiac / mythological association is historically valid. It appears there is reason to consider these 'nymphs' of VMs Gemini as referential to this 'age old' association. Perhaps this can do a little something to advance VMs investigation and to provide further affirmation that there is a subtle representation of "reality" to be found in these illustrations.
Thank you for your reply and the interesting perspective on the 'mythological continuum'. My initial concern is the degree to which any information regarding the Sumerian civilization might have been known to the VMs artist in the first part of the 1400s. With the excavation of Ur (C. Leonard Woolley) starting in 1922, it's even a question about what WMV might have known.
Both the clothing (tunics) and the ruins / rubble, as you suggest, might also be applied to Greece and to Rome, which would have been better known to an artist of the C-14 dates. Could characters standing on plinths be seen as statues?
We know that the astronomical / Zodiac / mythological association is historically valid. It appears there is reason to consider these 'nymphs' of VMs Gemini as referential to this 'age old' association. Perhaps this can do a little something to advance VMs investigation and to provide further affirmation that there is a subtle representation of "reality" to be found in these illustrations.
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