Searcher > 10-09-2019, 09:53 AM
(10-09-2019, 01:49 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.They don't really look like spots to me either, it looks to me like a decorative fur texture, but maybe some of the people who say there are spots can explain what they mean (assuming they are still on the forum).Thanks JKP! "Fur texture" is the best definition. Some time ago you compared the VMs Leo image to the "felines" with spots of the Aberdeen bestiary. If that pattern doesn't mean spots, but lines or strokes, we can compare our Leo's fur texture to this one of "felines - Cats" of the Aberdeen Bestiary or of "Cats" of MS. Ashmole 1511.
Maybe it's the blue paint splotches that are being interpreted as spots.
-JKP- > 10-09-2019, 10:50 AM
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Searcher > 10-09-2019, 11:37 AM
(10-09-2019, 10:50 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So then comes another question... was the illustrator drawing a lion (not a very good drawing but still a lion) and the painter coloring it as something else? The blue color is not unusual. Many medieval animals are colored blue, but it's daubed on in such an odd and light-handed way, maybe so it doesn't cover up the lines? or because the painter didn't quite know how to deal with it? Or maybe the blue was running out.I have absolutely the same impressions and questions. The colouring is a bit strange, but this problem also more or less appears on the Twins page (the clothes of the "twin sister"), on the Virgo and Libra pages, and even partially lasts in the quire 13 and some other pages of the VMs. From the one hand, I think, the author didn't want to overlay the initial patterns, from the other hand, he/she obviously had some problems with blue paint.
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