It's a bit more complicated. There are a lot of constants, or near constants in the way Voynich nymphs are drawn:
* The average nymph is four heads tall, which is very compact.
* Most nymphs support their weight on the leg closest to the viewer. That leg is stretched, even when the nymph is not standing.
* Most nymphs interacting with an object do so with the hand furthest from the viewer (unless they are handling for example two tubes or whatever). Male figures tend to have both hands in front of them, but most "regular" nymphs have the other arm (the one closest to the viewer) placed on their hips or positioned behind their backs.
There are exceptions to all of these, but given the quantity of nymphs (500+ iirc), this is always a small percentage.
* The Zodiac central figures deviate
* One or two nymphs have a more frontal orientation, notably the one centre top on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Admittedly, the face still tilts to the left, but it's more frontal than the rest of them, which also applies to the way the body is drawn. There is also one with a profile view in one of the big blue pools.
* Things change a lot when you include the figures in the astronomical diagrams, some of which are seen from the back.
A lot of that probably comes down to the particular way the VM artists ended up drawing his figures though, rather than being a cultural indicator. In my experience, finding figures similar to VM nymphs is more based on a certain je ne sais quoi rather than on measurable rules...
* The average nymph is four heads tall, which is very compact.
* Most nymphs support their weight on the leg closest to the viewer. That leg is stretched, even when the nymph is not standing.
* Most nymphs interacting with an object do so with the hand furthest from the viewer (unless they are handling for example two tubes or whatever). Male figures tend to have both hands in front of them, but most "regular" nymphs have the other arm (the one closest to the viewer) placed on their hips or positioned behind their backs.
There are exceptions to all of these, but given the quantity of nymphs (500+ iirc), this is always a small percentage.
* The Zodiac central figures deviate
* One or two nymphs have a more frontal orientation, notably the one centre top on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . Admittedly, the face still tilts to the left, but it's more frontal than the rest of them, which also applies to the way the body is drawn. There is also one with a profile view in one of the big blue pools.
* Things change a lot when you include the figures in the astronomical diagrams, some of which are seen from the back.
A lot of that probably comes down to the particular way the VM artists ended up drawing his figures though, rather than being a cultural indicator. In my experience, finding figures similar to VM nymphs is more based on a certain je ne sais quoi rather than on measurable rules...