30-07-2026, 10:35 AM
(30-07-2026, 08:19 AM)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(tradition? depiction? I need a word for "the setting / the scene / the idea / the concept")
What about "meme"? Or "graphical convention"?
Quote:It seems this "eating a tree on a rocky slope" depiction also transcends whether or not it is even a goat at all. Here is one i've literally just come across as I add the sequence from this MSS: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
But that could be a goat, drawn after a couple of Bavarian-size mugs of Bavarian beer. Or drawn by a monk who had not seen a goat or sheep since he was 5, and had no suitable "inspiration source" at hand.
Or it could be one of the "rabbit jokes" that manuscript artists would sprinkle on their work. Like rabbits hunting people, rabbits with armor hacking knights into pieces, etc.
All the best, --stolfi