27-12-2025, 12:24 AM
(26-12-2025, 11:47 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(26-12-2025, 11:10 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am not sure if the artist:
- didn't know it is a rainbow
- didn't care to colour it properly
- lacked paint or time
- other
Medieval rainbows are weird. It's normal.
Red between green and blue is correct according to Roger Bacon's Opus Majus:
Quote:There are five principal colors, namely, white, blue, red, green, black.
Since the top rainbow on the page is red and yellow, and the bottom one green and blue,
They do follow the correct order from top to bottom lacking the orange, indigo and violet.
I guess it sort of suggests the colour was applied with some reasoning some of the time.


