Roberto Valturio (1405–1475), the author of the Rosenwald 5+6 copies of Vegetius' De Re militari, wrote it around 1460. As far as I found out he drew on Taccola's illustrations from the publicly available books (excluding Palatino 766). So the similarity in imagery can be explained by Valturio copying Taccola. Ghiberti probably did the same
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It all boils down to the question whether Taccola invented those drawings, or, as I believe, also copied them from elsewhere. Including the Tuscan Sun. But from where exactly? And could the VM author have used such a precursor manuscript as inspiration instead of Taccola's Palatino 766?
The absence of any technical illustrations in the VM is indeed striking. But I think the author, despite being a bad artist, was quite good in adapting source imagery he liked to his needs while ignoring the rest.
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It all boils down to the question whether Taccola invented those drawings, or, as I believe, also copied them from elsewhere. Including the Tuscan Sun. But from where exactly? And could the VM author have used such a precursor manuscript as inspiration instead of Taccola's Palatino 766?
The absence of any technical illustrations in the VM is indeed striking. But I think the author, despite being a bad artist, was quite good in adapting source imagery he liked to his needs while ignoring the rest.