21-02-2025, 07:57 PM
Another example of VMs artistic 'innovation'. Suns (and moons) have sometimes been given faces, but the VMs innovation, so far as nothing comparable has been found, is that faces have become heads - and not only heads, but heads with headbands. Specifically, on f67v1-2 with the big blue headband, both of these are solar heads and faces.
Regarding the headband, how is it described? The term fillet seems close. Clearly, it's not a wreath of leaves or flowers; probably not made of metal. Something like a thick ribbon made of cloth or leather. That would fit the classical depiction. In the Middle Ages, if I've got it right, the term 'fillet' was used for a style of lady's headgear on the far right, as seen in the Codex Manesse.
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Everybody has a headband of sorts, but none look like a classical fillet.
Collins Latin Dictionary has two words for 'fillet'. "Infula" is a woolen band, fillet, or 'badge of honor'. "Vitta" is a headband or 'sacrificial fillet'.
Then there is the difficulty of finding early 15th C. illustrations of anybody with a classical fillet. The primary example extant is a Parisian depiction of an historical person from the classical era. Why do the VMs solar heads have fillet headbands? Where does that image come from?
Given the classical connection of the sun with Apollo, Helios, etc., it's hard to see the sun as feminine even if the VMs illustration is 'noncommittal'.
Regarding the headband, how is it described? The term fillet seems close. Clearly, it's not a wreath of leaves or flowers; probably not made of metal. Something like a thick ribbon made of cloth or leather. That would fit the classical depiction. In the Middle Ages, if I've got it right, the term 'fillet' was used for a style of lady's headgear on the far right, as seen in the Codex Manesse.
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Everybody has a headband of sorts, but none look like a classical fillet.
Collins Latin Dictionary has two words for 'fillet'. "Infula" is a woolen band, fillet, or 'badge of honor'. "Vitta" is a headband or 'sacrificial fillet'.
Then there is the difficulty of finding early 15th C. illustrations of anybody with a classical fillet. The primary example extant is a Parisian depiction of an historical person from the classical era. Why do the VMs solar heads have fillet headbands? Where does that image come from?
Given the classical connection of the sun with Apollo, Helios, etc., it's hard to see the sun as feminine even if the VMs illustration is 'noncommittal'.