15-08-2022, 08:02 AM
Constructing an iconographic theory of the VM requires, in my opinion, to relate all the parts of the codex in a way that makes sense. Sense from the point of view of a cultured medieval man, without discarding the singularities that the authors of the VM could introduce.
The Ghent Altarpiece mentioned by Koen makes me think of another element that relates another of the sections of the codex. It is the fountain of life that appears in the painting, a fountain from the fifteenth century that flows water that irrigates paradise. The fountain with its tubes and pool recall the plumbing that the female figures run through in Quire 13. It seems to be an allusion to how celestial influences are what make flowers grow.
The Ghent Altarpiece mentioned by Koen makes me think of another element that relates another of the sections of the codex. It is the fountain of life that appears in the painting, a fountain from the fifteenth century that flows water that irrigates paradise. The fountain with its tubes and pool recall the plumbing that the female figures run through in Quire 13. It seems to be an allusion to how celestial influences are what make flowers grow.