05-05-2025, 06:09 PM
(05-05-2025, 04:36 PM)Bernd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By common sense I mean intuitively understanding that when a drawing of a plant shows two branches overlapping, it means one is behind the other and they are not in the same plane and thus physically connected. And that plant shoots generally do not form loops. This is not an achievement of Renaissance, it is basic knowledge of how things work from experience since people began to draw and independent of any culture.
Actually looking at pairs of images you provided, I'd say the VMS images are more skillful, if you ignore the paint job. Overall composition is better and I see no obvious failures with the perspective. They are more abstract and they are definitely unrealistic, but I'm sure they are unrealistic by design, as exemplified in roots shaped like animals, deliberately weird connections between the roots and the stalk, etc. There is a loop in shoots, and it looks like a deliberate and well designed loop, as far as I can tell, with a split separation at the bottom and a smooth merge at the top. This could very well be a mnemonic device or something else entirely.
Also, same as with the text, don't forget the actual size of these images. Some of them are almost miniatures. Here's the loopy plant with a USB plug roughly to scale. If you consider that most leaves are 20 mm long and 7-8 mm across (1/3 of an inch), parts of these drawings are made very carefully.