21-02-2022, 09:29 PM
Well at least there are the images from Rubens. They're only off by 200 years. Possibly he got it from somewhere earlier.
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There is another potential indicator of later dating to be found in the structure of the patterns on the VMs tubs. Striped patterns are generally made with alternating blank bands between other stripes with a ladder-like pattern of regular perpendicular crossbars creating a series of boxes.
Heraldry used a system of tincture designation known as hatching that would match such an image, but Petra Sancta was also rather late. And if the VMs patterns match the C-14 dates, then this is rather early for this artistic technique. So, there's some ambiguity there. And there is the question of the artist's intent: Is this color or black and white. When examining the chevrons black and white works much better.
And just by chance, a potential historical connection between Otto the Archdeacon and Ottobuono Fieschi when the latter was papal legate to England. Argent, three chevrons sable would be the same either way.
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There is another potential indicator of later dating to be found in the structure of the patterns on the VMs tubs. Striped patterns are generally made with alternating blank bands between other stripes with a ladder-like pattern of regular perpendicular crossbars creating a series of boxes.
Heraldry used a system of tincture designation known as hatching that would match such an image, but Petra Sancta was also rather late. And if the VMs patterns match the C-14 dates, then this is rather early for this artistic technique. So, there's some ambiguity there. And there is the question of the artist's intent: Is this color or black and white. When examining the chevrons black and white works much better.
And just by chance, a potential historical connection between Otto the Archdeacon and Ottobuono Fieschi when the latter was papal legate to England. Argent, three chevrons sable would be the same either way.