Koen G > 08-03-2016, 10:27 AM
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EllieV > 08-03-2016, 10:11 PM
(08-03-2016, 10:27 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.One plant I find particularly fascinating is the one I aptly name the elephant plant. It strikes me as interesting because the elephant drawn here, blended to be hidden in a plant leaf, appears much more biologically accurate than elephants in comparable European manuscripts.I agree. The Harley 1585 example is interesting in relation to this image, because it contains suggestion for using elephant blood for medicine. I think the root may represent elephant blood, which the artist may have imagined as gray.
Oocephalus > 08-03-2016, 10:42 PM
-JKP- > 08-03-2016, 11:05 PM
(08-03-2016, 10:42 PM)Oocephalus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The right part of the root on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. also looks a bit like an elephant (I'm not the first to see this), but much less accurate than that leaf. It looks more like the European medieval drawings than a real elephant. I can think of the following explanations for that discrepancy:
- The drawings were made by different artists
- They were copied from different sources
- The artist based them on different pictures of elephants, maybe not recognizing that they were supposed to depict the same animal
- The animal in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is not an elephant (but what else could it be?)
Koen G > 08-03-2016, 11:05 PM