02-11-2025, 08:29 PM
Forgery requires content. Collective ninja investigations of the VMs illustrations have revealed several probable interpretations believed to date in the period 1400-1450. If the text is claimed to be 13th Century, this information is anachronistic.
If a forgery is meant to be an imitation of something else, why is the VMs so idiosyncratic? Why is Sagittarius a human crossbowman, and not the standard centaur with bow and arrow? <Etc.>
The secret is in the VMs cosmos. It is not only anachronistic; it is intentionally oxymoronic. That seems like a poor strategy for a forgery. The problem is in the recognition of historical detail, and that is the reader's problem, not the artist's.
If a forgery is meant to be an imitation of something else, why is the VMs so idiosyncratic? Why is Sagittarius a human crossbowman, and not the standard centaur with bow and arrow? <Etc.>
The secret is in the VMs cosmos. It is not only anachronistic; it is intentionally oxymoronic. That seems like a poor strategy for a forgery. The problem is in the recognition of historical detail, and that is the reader's problem, not the artist's.