Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Linda]

From the manuscript Scarecrow posted in the other thread:



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I find the example pic to denote clouds or nebuly ephemeral spirit lines (ie denoting holiness or grandeur of the people, and them being elsewhere, not actual cloud people) even though the lines are scalloped and not nebuly. I think the light lines create this effect also. I think the blue here is sky, heaven, purity. 

The vms pic looks more earthly to me, like layers of rock with vegetation growing on it. The blue strikes me as being related to water. It is similar to what can be found on the other side with regard to the bird nest, i don't think it is being used as a spiritual boundry. That page looks more like a treatise on rock and mountain formation to me. On the rosette page I take it as there are various mountains along the journey.



A precedent for this representation could be Beatus Maps, of which copies had been made for centuries prior.