07-12-2025, 03:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-12-2025, 03:34 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(07-12-2025, 01:49 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.so far the most important arguments [for "the painting was much later than the drawing"] are:
* The choice of colors looks weird (Does it though? And if it does, is that a problem?)
* Traces of paint material are found on top of a later folio number. On the same spot where we know water washed over the whole area...
Another bit of evidence for "the painting was much later than the drawing" is the three cases in the Zodiac where the original Artist apparently skipped a star (and, in two cases, also the nymph's arm that was supposed to hold it), and the Painter then provided one -- with paint only, no outline.
- f72r2 Gemini outer band at 09:30 (Miss otolam)
- f72r2 Gemini inner band at 01:45 (Miss otalShy)
- You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Scorpio inner band at 05:00 (Miss Chefy)
Maybe the omission of those outlines by the original Artist was intentional, maybe not. But anyway the Painter assumed that they were mistakes, and "fixed" them with his yellow paint. I consider these instances evidence that the Painter did not have a quill and/or brown ink suitable to draw the missing outlines. And, therefore, that he was not the original Artist, and could not get him to fix his mistake.
All the best, --stolfi.