26-09-2026, 10:28 PM
I made a reply when this matter came up last December, here:
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The "4 seasons" of Hausbuch can be seen there.
And showed that at least two gestures ("the discussing guy", "the flower-holding woman") are in a long tradition of understanding the 4 humours / 4 temperaments and was pictured as an example 300 years before.
VMS is not necessarily following Laufenberg, Laufenberg himself is following a much older tradition -- which is distributed over whole Europe and not limited to Strasbourg and such.
At last I doubted the urine flask: as I realized now, VMS "bottle" is closed with some kind of cap, while most shown references are open vessels.
At that time, I remarked the meaning of bottles with the temperaments; and the option for birds...
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The "4 seasons" of Hausbuch can be seen there.
And showed that at least two gestures ("the discussing guy", "the flower-holding woman") are in a long tradition of understanding the 4 humours / 4 temperaments and was pictured as an example 300 years before.
VMS is not necessarily following Laufenberg, Laufenberg himself is following a much older tradition -- which is distributed over whole Europe and not limited to Strasbourg and such.
At last I doubted the urine flask: as I realized now, VMS "bottle" is closed with some kind of cap, while most shown references are open vessels.
At that time, I remarked the meaning of bottles with the temperaments; and the option for birds...