Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz)]

Without the text it is just some random medieval guy, right?   You would never get the right meaning from the picture alone.

It's not how I picture Aristotle when I think of him but I know it is not an illustration of a bear or a tree.  I get the idea it is an adult human male.

This is a good point and answer to Rafal's valid question. An image can share many levels of meaning, even if some remain ambiguous. I also would add that one cannot determine the meaning by just one picture's example. The picture Rafal had, if missing the text, but found in a book with images that would point to the person could be found as belonging to a person. If an artist has tried to include a series of images, you cannot assume by looking at just one image you can identify the meaning of the whole text.

Also the images in the book can be found to be associable with other images elsewhere that could provide meaning. I could not be sure of the order of the Zodiac chart nymphs in the VM, but if I find it similar to the Lapidary, I can feel more convinced of the implied order, without even having read any text in the VM.