23-01-2016, 08:23 PM
Dear Diane,
As always, I bow to your superior knowledge.
I was aware of the several different types of mermaids/mermen only in hindsight. Looking back, I had loosely grouped them approximately as you have shown (but I didn't have any idea of where they were occurring - didn't think to check each one). I was mainly looking at mermaid/merman images for ones similar to the one in the VMS. It was pretty much only a minor search topic among the nebuly line images and Scorpio images and a few others I was mainly focusing on.
Re: "Then there's the mirror-and-comb holding sort, which properly has only one tail and commonly turns a little to the side."
Are there any that are stepping out of their costumes in a manner similar to the four images I show? Do you know of any images anywhere with a lady stepping out of any clothing/costume in a manner similar to these four? Of course I am asking for additional images that may have been used as a model for the VMS ladies. The pose in the VMS for the three images shown is with the costume portion partially off and the lady seeming to be stepping out of the costume or getting ready to perform that action.
I saw many mermaids of this sort with mirrors, few (if any) also with combs or only with combs.
I looked at two or three million images searching for any others and came up with zilch. I've asked you before and will ask again - do you know of any others? Did the artist in York that painted the Hunterian example make any other copies that are in other libraries? Did anyone else use the pose for merpersons? Is there anything similar elsewhere?
Does anyone else know of any such images (and could you point me to them, please)?
You know that I believe the artist of the Voynich Manuscript must have gotten some of his/her models, some of his/her motifs and some of his/her ideas from existing art somewhere or some wheres. The Hunterian example is so strikingly similar to the ones in the VMS that I can hardly believe in so much coincidence, especially given the paucity of equally convincing alternate examples. And the dates fit.
But you know me - I can add two and two together and get seven much more often than other people do.
Thank you for the background information.
Don of Tallahassee
As always, I bow to your superior knowledge.
I was aware of the several different types of mermaids/mermen only in hindsight. Looking back, I had loosely grouped them approximately as you have shown (but I didn't have any idea of where they were occurring - didn't think to check each one). I was mainly looking at mermaid/merman images for ones similar to the one in the VMS. It was pretty much only a minor search topic among the nebuly line images and Scorpio images and a few others I was mainly focusing on.
Re: "Then there's the mirror-and-comb holding sort, which properly has only one tail and commonly turns a little to the side."
Are there any that are stepping out of their costumes in a manner similar to the four images I show? Do you know of any images anywhere with a lady stepping out of any clothing/costume in a manner similar to these four? Of course I am asking for additional images that may have been used as a model for the VMS ladies. The pose in the VMS for the three images shown is with the costume portion partially off and the lady seeming to be stepping out of the costume or getting ready to perform that action.
I saw many mermaids of this sort with mirrors, few (if any) also with combs or only with combs.
I looked at two or three million images searching for any others and came up with zilch. I've asked you before and will ask again - do you know of any others? Did the artist in York that painted the Hunterian example make any other copies that are in other libraries? Did anyone else use the pose for merpersons? Is there anything similar elsewhere?
Does anyone else know of any such images (and could you point me to them, please)?
You know that I believe the artist of the Voynich Manuscript must have gotten some of his/her models, some of his/her motifs and some of his/her ideas from existing art somewhere or some wheres. The Hunterian example is so strikingly similar to the ones in the VMS that I can hardly believe in so much coincidence, especially given the paucity of equally convincing alternate examples. And the dates fit.
But you know me - I can add two and two together and get seven much more often than other people do.
Thank you for the background information.
Don of Tallahassee