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• The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts

  JustAnotherTheory > 1 hour ago

  This is a follow-up to this thread: 
  
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  in which I discovered a possible connection between the VMS nymphs and 15th century Italian illustrated Dante manuscripts.
  
  I will show some concrete examples below. All of the pictures below are from 14th and 15th century Dante manuscripts.
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
     
  
  Could the VMS nymphs section be inspired by Dante manuscript(s)? Could it somehow be a representation of a female version of Dante's hell?

• RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts

  Koen G > 52 minutes ago

  I would not exclude the possibility of influence from some Dante MS. Along with Balneic bathers, souls of the damned (and saved) are probably the best parallels we have for large amounts of nude figures standing in liquids. I'm not sure if there's anything where we can say "this can only have come from Dante" though.

• RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts

  JustAnotherTheory > 10 minutes ago

  I wonder, are there any examples of medieval MS in which there are obvious signs of inspiration from a vast array of different sources? Like the VMS seems to have bits and pieces of Cadamosto, Taccola, Balneis, Dante MSs, Scot, ...
  
  Weren't (most) MSs in the middle ages simple copies of existing works, instead of a mish-mash of tens of different sources?
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