15-08-2016, 02:08 PM
(15-08-2016, 01:50 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(15-08-2016, 01:28 PM)Sam G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.in any case, the tail in the VMS looks different from any Leo image I have seen, which makes the resemblance to this tree quite striking.
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That's admittedly an interesting one, in that the three-pronged shape is certainly similar. But the "frayed" character of the tail in the VMS image still looks much more like the tree in the mosaic image than in this Cod Sang 402 image. So, it is still basically consistent with what I outlined in my original post, where the image began as something similar to the leopard mosaic and then was reshaped along European lines (possibly over several generations of copying), with the tree being reinterpreted as a tail. It's possible that one of the influences was an image like the one you've shown here. It seems like the frayed character was retained from the original tree, but the three-pronged shape was influenced by this type of Leo tail.