Now, one could hear a pin drop, as they say.
My question, to anyone who cares to comment: What more does it take?
Like the old Clint Eastwood line about "a mere scrap of information." That is what we get from the VMs.
The scraps of information provided on VMs White Aries involve armorial and ecclesiastical heraldry. Armorial insignias depend on color and pattern. On White Aries, the color is blue, and the pattern is diagonal stripes from the dexter side. The heraldry of ecclesiastical hats also depends on color and on style. The hat is reddish, and the brim is wide. At the time of the VMs, the red galero was the "cardinal's hat".
While it is clear that a blue-striped tub and a reddish hat have been combined on a single VMs nymph, what has been lacking is the actual connection to particular historical events, along with the recognition that the artist has intentionally used ambiguity to create a disguise, as exemplified by the structural duality regarding the orientation of the stripes, etc.
Armorial and ecclesiastical heraldry taken together with historical facts of church tradition provide for only one valid interpretation: the Fieschi popes. Then there are the four, objective, structural confirmations in the illustration as listed previously. How does that compare with the proposed botanical identifications? What else is needed?
Following identification, there is the matter of purpose.
My question, to anyone who cares to comment: What more does it take?
Like the old Clint Eastwood line about "a mere scrap of information." That is what we get from the VMs.
The scraps of information provided on VMs White Aries involve armorial and ecclesiastical heraldry. Armorial insignias depend on color and pattern. On White Aries, the color is blue, and the pattern is diagonal stripes from the dexter side. The heraldry of ecclesiastical hats also depends on color and on style. The hat is reddish, and the brim is wide. At the time of the VMs, the red galero was the "cardinal's hat".
While it is clear that a blue-striped tub and a reddish hat have been combined on a single VMs nymph, what has been lacking is the actual connection to particular historical events, along with the recognition that the artist has intentionally used ambiguity to create a disguise, as exemplified by the structural duality regarding the orientation of the stripes, etc.
Armorial and ecclesiastical heraldry taken together with historical facts of church tradition provide for only one valid interpretation: the Fieschi popes. Then there are the four, objective, structural confirmations in the illustration as listed previously. How does that compare with the proposed botanical identifications? What else is needed?
Following identification, there is the matter of purpose.