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• RE: Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

  Aga Tentakulus > 6 hours ago

  It's not just the thing (definitely not an armadillo) on the cushion with the wavy ribbon.
  The whole picture also says, floating above the head of a nymph.
  Now, think about it.

• RE: Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

  asteckley > 4 hours ago

  (7 hours ago)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
  Showing the Alps above a nebuly cloud band raining down on various other locations would make sense for that story and especially pointing out that particular place to show how bits of moisture can become a torrent.

  
  
  Nothing anachronistic about that.
  Surely whatever the artist lacked in drawing skill was made up for with advanced cartographic skill. 
  

• RE: Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

  Mauro > 4 hours ago

  This is a bear, from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (dated ca. 1200) which is drawn in a way which (to me at least) suggests it has scales:
  
     
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  What's really strange in the VMS scaled-whatever-beast are the scales pointing towards the head, rather than towards the tail
  
  (there are more examples of scaled beasts in the same book and at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., many are fishes but not every one of them).

• RE: Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

  Koen G > 2 hours ago

  Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here.
  The way medieval artists use patterns on fur does evolve a bit over the centuries. You're more likely to find something that looks scalloped in earlier, more stylized manuscripts.
  
  What you say about the direction of the "scales" is mentioned from time to time, but it isn't said nearly enough. Take any form of scalloping in medieval art, and they have a way to run from the "top" to the bottom. Medieval artists knew how to follow this, from snakes to roof tiles to feathers to armor. So are we really supposed to be looking at scales, or rather series of curved lines indicating rough fur?
  
  I don't know the answer to this, by the way, I changed my mind like ten times about what I think this thing may have been intended as. But we have to start from observation, and I am just not sure that these were intended as scales. 
  
  There may be some evidence in the MS. The fish from Pisces get correctly oriented scales. But guess who does get three bands of curves pointing the "wrong" way? White Aries. They even used the same pigment and "painting technique" in the green one, though I understand the linework itself should be more convincing to some.
  
     
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