ReneZ > 02-08-2017, 09:57 AM
Koen G > 02-08-2017, 10:19 AM
MarcoP > 02-08-2017, 10:58 AM
(02-08-2017, 06:37 AM)Wladimir D Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The yellow spire No. 1 is divided into two cones with blue paint. What is this: - "all-seeing eye" or an attempt to draw a lighthouse (1 and 3?)?
-JKP- > 02-08-2017, 11:42 AM
Koen G > 02-08-2017, 02:04 PM
MarcoP > 02-08-2017, 06:46 PM
(02-08-2017, 02:04 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The difficulty is, as JKP shows, that these elements were relatively popular in 15thC Europe. I know of several churches around here with a globular decoration in the spire, and it is true that a large amount of towers - especially the spires - have been lost or rebuilt in a different style. These circumstances make the search for similar buildings very difficult.
(02-08-2017, 02:04 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Based on the similarity alone I'd still say this tower is a good candidate. However, it appears to be standing in the middle of the old town while the VM tower is near or even part of what looks like a fortified wall...
Koen G > 02-08-2017, 07:01 PM
-JKP- > 02-08-2017, 08:21 PM
(02-08-2017, 07:01 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A random thought. The apparent accuracy and architectural detail in these little buildings keeps surprising me. I'm not ashamed to admit that I can't draw like the images on the large foldout. The same goes for the folio with the two birds, those are actually really well drawn and the items on that page seem to have the same DNA as the map. Now compare this to the Zodiac "bulls" for example, quite puzzling.
I wonder whether it would make sense to look for parallels for these buildings on things like portolan charts? Those are surely some of the closest things we know to this foldout...
MarcoP > 03-08-2017, 06:39 PM
(02-08-2017, 07:01 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I wonder whether it would make sense to look for parallels for these buildings on things like portolan charts? Those are surely some of the closest things we know to this foldout...
MarcoP > 03-08-2017, 06:52 PM
(02-08-2017, 08:21 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I find particularly interesting about the VMS rosettes page is the vantage point from which the details have been drawn. Most medieval maps with buildings were straight on (even if the map was at an angle) or "flattened" in odd ways but the VMS "map" makes you feel like whoever drew it flew over in a hot-air balloon—in other words, drawing many of the buildings from an angle that would have been impossible to see in real life in the 15th century unless one were at a great height.