25-01-2016, 10:11 PM
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You 'sort of see them.' Hey, that's great. What you have is a sort of forest and the trees problem. You are looking at the methods by which the patterns are made, not at the patterns themselves. Heraldica uses solid coloration, black and white, to indicate alternate stripes. The VMs uses an artistic technique, that appears to be hatching lines, and that also produces a pattern of alternate lines. Heraldry has used hatching lines for centuries. The patterns are the same. The techniques are different.
The VMs is not a heraldic text. It is not "Heraldry Made Easy". It is a text that uses heraldry to perform the author's bidding. The images of the particular patterns don't need to be perfect. Not all patterns on the tubs need to be valid heraldic examples. All that is necessary is to get across the idea of a connection with heraldry. If the illustrations can do this adequately, then it is up to the reader to pursue the investigation further. However there is an additional level of difficulty in that what the illustrations present is something that is intentionally less than glaringly obvious. There are intentional ambiguities, but there is only one interpretive pathway that leads to historical grounding.
Here are heraldic lines of division. See the Gallery in second half of article.
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Engrailed lines are found in a number of Zodiac tub patterns - another indicator of heraldic connections in these VMs illustrations.
There are some variations in the way papelonny is represented, but it's still the same pattern.
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You 'sort of see them.' Hey, that's great. What you have is a sort of forest and the trees problem. You are looking at the methods by which the patterns are made, not at the patterns themselves. Heraldica uses solid coloration, black and white, to indicate alternate stripes. The VMs uses an artistic technique, that appears to be hatching lines, and that also produces a pattern of alternate lines. Heraldry has used hatching lines for centuries. The patterns are the same. The techniques are different.
The VMs is not a heraldic text. It is not "Heraldry Made Easy". It is a text that uses heraldry to perform the author's bidding. The images of the particular patterns don't need to be perfect. Not all patterns on the tubs need to be valid heraldic examples. All that is necessary is to get across the idea of a connection with heraldry. If the illustrations can do this adequately, then it is up to the reader to pursue the investigation further. However there is an additional level of difficulty in that what the illustrations present is something that is intentionally less than glaringly obvious. There are intentional ambiguities, but there is only one interpretive pathway that leads to historical grounding.
Here are heraldic lines of division. See the Gallery in second half of article.
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Engrailed lines are found in a number of Zodiac tub patterns - another indicator of heraldic connections in these VMs illustrations.
There are some variations in the way papelonny is represented, but it's still the same pattern.
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Thanks.