MarcoP > 26-05-2018, 06:21 AM
(24-05-2018, 10:09 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A whole different rainbow situation:
Venus, sitting on a rainbow, with her devotees who offer their hearts to her ----The Hague, KB, 74 G 27 . Christine de Pisan, L'Epistre d'Othea Place of origin, date: Auvergne(?); c. 1450-1475 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Koen G > 26-05-2018, 05:43 PM
R. Sale > 26-05-2018, 09:39 PM
MarcoP > 27-05-2018, 11:03 AM
(26-05-2018, 09:39 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is clear that rainbows and cloud bands were both artistic techniques used to help designate various deities. The illustration from Bodmer 49 in Post #71 is a sort of hybrid. A cloud band pattern in a rainbow-shaped construction.
*However* it is not a nebuly line. It is a WAVY line. Nebuly is defined as having crests and troughs that are bulbous.
MarcoP > 28-05-2018, 12:39 PM
(26-05-2018, 05:43 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A helpful overview, Marco. It makes me think of how different the VM is, again.
So if we were to draw up a typology of rainbows as they appear in medieval art, we have seen at least the following categories:
Did I miss any or make any mistakes?
- Just a rainbow, no interaction with figures. See Linda's post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and Marco's post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for a labelled example.
- Part of general cosmological background to scene, no interaction with figures.
- Divine throne, with the function of indicating that the enthroned figure does not belong to the earthly realm.
- Illustration of Rainbow-like Iris stone, see Marco's post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
- Association with the elements - is this illustrated in a pre-VM document?
- Rainbows as essential part of a narrative, as in the story of Noah, see Marco's example You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
In my opinion the first four examples can be excluded for the VM. The last two or a combination of both remain possible - or something else altogether of course.
DONJCH > 28-05-2018, 02:24 PM
MarcoP > 28-05-2018, 04:58 PM
(28-05-2018, 11:46 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I found this one on a Russian You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about Tacuinum Sanitatis, but don't know more about it. Apparently a rainbow sky accompanies someone picking and smelling herbs.
Linda > 06-02-2019, 10:58 PM
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