10-10-2025, 11:26 PM
Pareidolia, but underwater
Elsewhere I noted that on the next page (f82v) the Painter who filled the pond at the bottom of the page seems to have obliterated some non-trivial details of the drawing and maybe even some text.
The same may have happened on this page:
This is the green channel of a clip of the bottom pond of f82v, towards the east side, with a bit of contrast stretching.
I think it is certain that the Painter painted over the bottom few mm of the waterfall (A), as well as the hair and neck outline of one of the nymphs (B,C).
Was there more stuff in that pond? I think I can see a curl like a whirlpool at the base of the waterfall (J), and something like a trumpet with lobes or stripes etc (K,L,M,N).
There may be more similar smudges in this pond. Maybe even a label or two.
But these phantoms could also be just accidental dark lines created by overlapping of the the chaotic strokes of paint (which, like much of the paint on the VMS, seems to have been applied with a small and very crude "brush", such as a stick with a chewed-up tip).
What do you think?
All the best, -- jorge
Elsewhere I noted that on the next page (f82v) the Painter who filled the pond at the bottom of the page seems to have obliterated some non-trivial details of the drawing and maybe even some text.
The same may have happened on this page:
This is the green channel of a clip of the bottom pond of f82v, towards the east side, with a bit of contrast stretching.
I think it is certain that the Painter painted over the bottom few mm of the waterfall (A), as well as the hair and neck outline of one of the nymphs (B,C).
Was there more stuff in that pond? I think I can see a curl like a whirlpool at the base of the waterfall (J), and something like a trumpet with lobes or stripes etc (K,L,M,N).
There may be more similar smudges in this pond. Maybe even a label or two.
But these phantoms could also be just accidental dark lines created by overlapping of the the chaotic strokes of paint (which, like much of the paint on the VMS, seems to have been applied with a small and very crude "brush", such as a stick with a chewed-up tip).
What do you think?
All the best, -- jorge