R. Sale > 28-12-2020, 10:53 PM
Who is left holding the apple? It's Eve. If it is an apple, then it is Eve. Of course, some representations have more than one apple. But You are not allowed to view links.
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As a topic of investigation, this question attracts attention to a specific, traditional association of a woman and an apple in the story of Adam and Eve. The association is fairly easy, but it remains ambiguous because so many other essential elements are omitted.
Just above this association is another of a more difficult nature, because it depends on specific historical information, rather than traditional, biblical tales, and consequently it reveals more detailed information. This is the association of the Golden Fleece medallion with an old Agnus Dei illustration that was once held in the library of the same Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. (BNF Fr. 13096 f 16) The similarity is based on structure and identification, not on appearance. If the investigation of cloud bands showed one thing, it is that an incredible variety of appearance can be demonstrated by something with a singular, structural purpose - a cosmic boundary.
The VMs clearly possesses / suffers from the effects of this innate visual discrepancy. The illustrator has also chosen to make use of and amplify this type of discrepancy through the creation of combined images based on disparate sources (in the Cosmos & Melusine) and through intentional misdirection and disguise (Fieschi heraldry on White Aries).
There is no estimate to the extent of VMs trickery. What we have here are a few mountains that rise above the clouds.