Take a look at these illustrations from the historical record.
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Stars are only a part of the story of a greater historical trend in artistic replication. It might be called "The History of the Background". A trend from gold foil, to patterned and diapered backgrounds, to more naturalistic representations, <and this is where the stars come in>, and on to realism.
Stars are part of the transition from pattern to naturalism. They have an aura of naturalism but sometimes they just fill in the background.
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There is good provenance on both illustrations.
The vast majority of stars here are asterisk-type stars. Three or four short lines of gold paint cross at a common median point. The other type of star is polygonal. The rays consist of two lines and the star has an interior area. These are the stars we see with the VMs nymphs. Polygonal stars are also found in the VMs cosmic diagram. This differs from BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334, which both use the traditional asterisk star patterns.
It's another instance where the VMs demonstrates visual diversity yet retains structural identity. A starfield is still a field of stars, even if the appearance and the pattern of the stars has changed. The starfield is a part of the structure of the Parisian, three-part cosmos. Each VMs part has been given a twist.
Seeing that the historical examples are compatible with the VMs C-14 dates, there seems reason to suspect that the VMs artist could have used asterisk stars as filler.
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Stars are only a part of the story of a greater historical trend in artistic replication. It might be called "The History of the Background". A trend from gold foil, to patterned and diapered backgrounds, to more naturalistic representations, <and this is where the stars come in>, and on to realism.
Stars are part of the transition from pattern to naturalism. They have an aura of naturalism but sometimes they just fill in the background.
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There is good provenance on both illustrations.
The vast majority of stars here are asterisk-type stars. Three or four short lines of gold paint cross at a common median point. The other type of star is polygonal. The rays consist of two lines and the star has an interior area. These are the stars we see with the VMs nymphs. Polygonal stars are also found in the VMs cosmic diagram. This differs from BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334, which both use the traditional asterisk star patterns.
It's another instance where the VMs demonstrates visual diversity yet retains structural identity. A starfield is still a field of stars, even if the appearance and the pattern of the stars has changed. The starfield is a part of the structure of the Parisian, three-part cosmos. Each VMs part has been given a twist.
Seeing that the historical examples are compatible with the VMs C-14 dates, there seems reason to suspect that the VMs artist could have used asterisk stars as filler.