Helmut Winkler > 26-03-2016, 10:37 AM
(26-03-2016, 09:49 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(25-03-2016, 01:31 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Interpreting this as a baptism scene raises a lot of questions:
- why is the woman to be baptized wearing some kind of translucent skirt or vessel around her legs and left hand?
- what is the object in het right hand and why is she holding it?
- why is she only with her feet in the water while the suggested parallel pose is clearly all about submerging the head?
- why is she being grabbed by the eye instead of on top of the head?
- why is the woman who performs the ceremony naked, while at the same time standing on land?
Another illustration that parallels the most bizarre element:
some kind of translucent skirt or vessel around the legs and left hand of the person to be baptized
Claricia Psalter, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., Augsburg, Germany, 1200 ca, fol.10r
Diane > 26-03-2016, 11:04 AM
VViews > 26-03-2016, 11:43 AM
(25-03-2016, 04:21 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Anyway, I have not written that this illustration represents a baptism because I don't think it does.
In my opinion it is somehow reminiscent of illustrations of baptism, so it is possible that it represents something similar (such as some other kind of ritual purification, as proposed by David).
MarcoP > 26-03-2016, 01:43 PM
(26-03-2016, 10:37 AM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.1) This is no parallel to the 'skirt' of the VMs, it is just the water of river Jordan Jesus is standing in, the green of the psalter is what is blue in the VMs.
VViews > 26-03-2016, 02:47 PM
MarcoP > 26-03-2016, 03:02 PM
(26-03-2016, 02:47 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP,
I wouldn't discount your idea, because obviously I have no way of knowing what's really going on here, but just to present an alternative, since you ask for them in your last post:
It could be an image relating to ophtalmology. See the pose in these images (sorry, found on google, no idea where these are originally from):
Davidsch > 26-03-2016, 03:46 PM
Koen G > 26-03-2016, 04:46 PM
VViews > 26-03-2016, 05:05 PM
Helmut Winkler > 26-03-2016, 06:14 PM
(26-03-2016, 01:43 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you know of better parallels for this image, please post them so that they can be compared!