(27-12-2025, 08:48 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.First, what information is the green paint conveying, exactly? The unpainted outline already "says" that the area is a pond.
To be clear: I don't know, and if anyone did, we would be a considerable step further. What is clear, however, is that e.g. the pools are either green or blue. In my opinion, this is not coincidental but is intended to represent a process. It could be, for example purely balneological, different types of water, or (my unproven favorite theory) alchemical processes. Whatever the deliberate use of colors means (not forgetting yellow and red), it is not simply decoration but, as I said, a pictorial narrative. It should therefore be seen as a visual commentary on the text. It is virtually impossible that the colored illustrations are nothing more than a kind of interchangeable ornamentation. The interpretation “a pond is just a pond” clearly falls short here.