Nymph Proportions

[Sam G]

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.

Well, right - I don't think the imagery in the VMS was copied from the Vat.gr.1291, more like the Vat.gr.1291 and the VMS are both based in the same (classical) artistic traditions.

The example has been raised again and again, for years.  There's very little to it when the image is analysed in detail.

I don't know about this.  It does seem to agree with the VMS on some fairly specific points, such as the types of poses it contains.  Of course there are also many features of the VMS nymph rings that cannot be found in the Vat.gr.1291, as well as a wider variety of poses.

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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Thanks.  I will try to go through these in detail, but at a glance while much of it appears relevant I don't see anything that would make me think that the similarity to Vat.gr.1291 is a total coincidence.

In any case, even if the similarity is somehow a coincidence, it is still a striking similarity and therefore worth including in a study of proportions... wouldn't you agree?