Dear all,
I know where similar conventions are found as regular conventions... I'm not sure why it has to be in manuscript art if the aim is to locate the place and time when such conventions operated, but with such limitation imposed, I'm afraid I can't help. The extant examples are in other media - statues, imagery on coins, gold work, even frescos. But - sorry - not manuscripts.
Sam - that example in Vat.Gr.1291 has been very often mentioned, but the similarity is a little illusory. What you're seeing in the inner tier of that manuscript's diagram is a relic of earlier practice and style.
The example has been raised again and again, for years. There's very little to it when the image is analysed in detail.
As of course, I finally felt someone had to do. So I did. In detail, with all the usual research and comparative matter.
Not that it made any difference...
But fyi:-
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I know where similar conventions are found as regular conventions... I'm not sure why it has to be in manuscript art if the aim is to locate the place and time when such conventions operated, but with such limitation imposed, I'm afraid I can't help. The extant examples are in other media - statues, imagery on coins, gold work, even frescos. But - sorry - not manuscripts.
Sam - that example in Vat.Gr.1291 has been very often mentioned, but the similarity is a little illusory. What you're seeing in the inner tier of that manuscript's diagram is a relic of earlier practice and style.
The example has been raised again and again, for years. There's very little to it when the image is analysed in detail.
As of course, I finally felt someone had to do. So I did. In detail, with all the usual research and comparative matter.
Not that it made any difference...
But fyi:-
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