06-05-2026, 12:25 PM
Thread moved to Imagery.
I will elaborate a bit about why I find this particular page interesting (apart from the obvious: theme, color scheme and use of patterns).
Around the time of the first Malta conference, I was briefly obsessed with representations of tents and canopies in the VM. Throughout its non-botanical sections, it seemed to me like the MS has a preference for the tensile and the textile. One of the strongest indications of "intentionality" is atop f75r. The layout of this page mirrors that of Taccola's "rainbow bridge", but the structure atop You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , from which the water appears to emerge, remains unexplained.
Just to be clear, even taking the Balneis into account, it is still unexplained, because Q13 is, as far as we can tell, an idiosyncratic composition. We need to assume the VM artist did combining, creative copying and/or miscopying from any source materials.
Below, I quickly isolated the fabric-like part from f75r, highlighting why I think this behaves like fabric rather than, say, a stone roof. And the same kind of undulating, uneven, open structure can be observed in the leftmost tent of the Balneis illustration.
I will elaborate a bit about why I find this particular page interesting (apart from the obvious: theme, color scheme and use of patterns).
Around the time of the first Malta conference, I was briefly obsessed with representations of tents and canopies in the VM. Throughout its non-botanical sections, it seemed to me like the MS has a preference for the tensile and the textile. One of the strongest indications of "intentionality" is atop f75r. The layout of this page mirrors that of Taccola's "rainbow bridge", but the structure atop You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , from which the water appears to emerge, remains unexplained.
Just to be clear, even taking the Balneis into account, it is still unexplained, because Q13 is, as far as we can tell, an idiosyncratic composition. We need to assume the VM artist did combining, creative copying and/or miscopying from any source materials.
Below, I quickly isolated the fabric-like part from f75r, highlighting why I think this behaves like fabric rather than, say, a stone roof. And the same kind of undulating, uneven, open structure can be observed in the leftmost tent of the Balneis illustration.