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RE: Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis
DG97EEB > 1 hour ago
(1 hour ago)Bernd Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Not impossible.
Considering the demographics of medieval Prague, I would guess that at least some of those artists were ethnic Germans like Kyeser who spoke German rather than Czech and would have no issues finding work in other German-speaking territories. Generally we shouldn't underestimate how much and far professionals traveled for work. Whether there's a continuity from the Prague scriptorium to Lauber remains to be seen but is something we should definitely explore. However we should also keep in mind that the Prague scriptorium didn't exist in a vacuum either and the artists likely studied in Germany or Italy before receiving a position at the court in Prague, like Kyeser did. So the root of the VM imagery does not necessarily have to lie in Prague. My bet is on the city states of Northern Italy.
My personal opinion at the moment: plausible yes, necessary no.
I fully agree . There's a Padua/Bavaria link that seems self evident... -
RE: Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis
Koen G > 2 minutes ago
Even though I'm sometimes an instigator of associations with locations, I haven't figured out in the least yet where I think the MS was made. Being aware how international everything was, and the immense draw of Italy on intellectuals at the time, puts everything in perspective.
Maybe someone who grew up in a German-language (and art) environment, but was in Italy at the time. That could even be Tuscany, apparently. Florence, Siena... Maybe Bologna, Padua, Venice...
Ik fairy certain that the Zodiac symbols come from a German language source (details are known), but that was clearly not the only type of source. It has long been suspected that they are not entirely from the same background as other things in the MS. The Laufenberg connection may be from the same.