Koen G > 20-02-2024, 09:04 AM
Moonchild > 20-02-2024, 03:09 PM
(20-02-2024, 09:04 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Isn't it to be expected that using the same digital manipulations on digital images of the same object results in similar digital artifacts?
Moonchild > 20-02-2024, 09:35 PM
(17-02-2024, 08:46 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Blurring is the gateway to pareidolia. Everybody wants to blame pareidolia. The problem is the blurring. The more blurring, the greater the possibilities for seeing things, until everything gets all blurred out. There is the possibility of too much alteration.
Pareidolia is a natural human tendency. The VMs artist knew of pareidolia (and ambiguity). Take a look at the example presented above regarding the roots of f46v, the unaltered image. Now known for their proposed interpretation as the wings of Saint Michael, this interpretation is enhanced by a small, almost insignificant, ink-line circle that sits at the top juncture of the wings. Which is where a potential 'head' should be. Pareidolia tends to promote the interpretation that there might be an angelic person, not just a heraldic vol with a little circle.
So, if the wings are Saint Michael, as psychopomp, and the flowers are costmary, aka the herb of the Virgin, (of course the Virgin Mary), then this illustration is a representation of the Assumption of the Virgin. And as such, is certainly applicable to medieval religious ideology. Pareidolia plays a small, but demonstrable role in this interpretation. Pareidolia has a role to play only when it can be shown to be relevant.
Moonchild > 20-02-2024, 09:43 PM
(18-02-2024, 06:51 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:Also, I suspect Bosch possibly the author and artist of the VM. Just an idea. It's possible.
You mean that Hieronymus Bosch?
I wouldn't say so. Voynich illustrations are simply too lame for Bosch. He was a master and they are at best 4/10 if we compare them to other manuscripts
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