04-10-2023, 04:05 PM
I agree. There are definitely some pretty obvious differences.
It was just close enough that I felt like i had to bring it up.
As for the drawing of the person - the following is also one of Crux of Telcz's drawings. It's clear that he was capable of drawing in a more realistic way - he just sometimes ... didn't.
Maybe i'm off ... but I'm imagining VM's author as someone not too dissimilar from Crux of Telcz - a trained scribe, who would probably produce many books, most likely copies of popular or religious books. With these, he might be more restrained by the norms and rules of book-writing of the time, so much that they might have little resemblance with the VM, the VM being the only time he had complete creative freedom over the piece.
It was just close enough that I felt like i had to bring it up.
As for the drawing of the person - the following is also one of Crux of Telcz's drawings. It's clear that he was capable of drawing in a more realistic way - he just sometimes ... didn't.
Maybe i'm off ... but I'm imagining VM's author as someone not too dissimilar from Crux of Telcz - a trained scribe, who would probably produce many books, most likely copies of popular or religious books. With these, he might be more restrained by the norms and rules of book-writing of the time, so much that they might have little resemblance with the VM, the VM being the only time he had complete creative freedom over the piece.