02-11-2016, 03:49 AM
(14-10-2016, 06:37 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm working on a short blog post about nymph attributes, and I realized I had never looked properly at these guys before. Image contrast etc. has been altered:
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Top left (my image): container, product (bread? vegetable?) or gold?
Top right: container, cereal crop
Bottom left: holding yellow globe in one hand, pointing to an object with writing (??) with the other.
Bottom right: yellow thing in one hand, not sure whether the top part belongs with it, in that case it looks like a vegetable. White globe in the other. One can argue that the white globe is part of the background, but the way the hand is held suggests to me that it is an item.
Koen, the bottom right object looks like a plant to me too, especially when I first saw it, but it also occurred to me, if these four images perhaps represent four different religious or ethnic denominations, then the bottom right object that looks like a plant might be a branched candle holder (similar to a menorah) and the round part might be the base rather than a root-ball, depending on the angle. It's a long shot, but if the illustrator were trying to not make things too obvious, it might be drawn this way and yet still be understood by the originator.
I don't think it's necessarily the best idea, but it's a possible alternative.