Nymph Proportions

[EllieV]

However, I think Diane is right to read it as a cultural indicator rather than rescaling for necessity.

If I understand correctly, Diane reads it as cultural indicator (in her case anything but European) based on her own assumption that disproportionately big heads were never found in Latin Europe. This is a false assumption. Romanesque art has plenty of examples of disproportionate heads (and not only in illuminated manuscript). My example is from the Modena Cathedral, 12th century .