19-01-2026, 11:52 AM
I also think that you should be aware that most of us here aren't "experts" in Renaissance.
So treat everything said here more cautiously than you would do with opinions coming from an art historian or generally a historian specialising in Renaissance.
On the other hand VM is tricky, even for experts. For example Panofski claimed that it comes from Spain, showing traces of Jewish and Arab art ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). And O'Neill "poisoned" the VM research for many years with his sunflower thing.
We can discuss the art or ideas of VM. However discussing the ideas is somehow hard as we don't understand the text
As of art, Nick Pelling at some moment discussed such stuff as parallel hatching:
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It was before of VM carbon dating as he came to conclusions that Voynich Manuscript comes from around 1450-1480. Again, as you can see, it is tricky and your theories may easily collapse.
You should also avoid myths about Medieval Ages like:
- They didn't know ancient myths and culture
- They were very pious and prayed all the time. Then humanist came and shifted the focus from God to humans
- They were prude, avoiding depicting nudity and bathed in clothes
(they didn't and naked nymphs aren't really that avant-garde)
and others
But maybe share some your ideas with us so we don't talk at so high level of abstraction
So treat everything said here more cautiously than you would do with opinions coming from an art historian or generally a historian specialising in Renaissance.
On the other hand VM is tricky, even for experts. For example Panofski claimed that it comes from Spain, showing traces of Jewish and Arab art ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). And O'Neill "poisoned" the VM research for many years with his sunflower thing.
We can discuss the art or ideas of VM. However discussing the ideas is somehow hard as we don't understand the text
As of art, Nick Pelling at some moment discussed such stuff as parallel hatching:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It was before of VM carbon dating as he came to conclusions that Voynich Manuscript comes from around 1450-1480. Again, as you can see, it is tricky and your theories may easily collapse.
You should also avoid myths about Medieval Ages like:
- They didn't know ancient myths and culture
- They were very pious and prayed all the time. Then humanist came and shifted the focus from God to humans
- They were prude, avoiding depicting nudity and bathed in clothes
(they didn't and naked nymphs aren't really that avant-garde)
and others
But maybe share some your ideas with us so we don't talk at so high level of abstraction