Diane > 02-10-2016, 04:47 AM
EllieV > 02-10-2016, 12:43 PM
(02-10-2016, 04:47 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many figures have the length of the head equal to the distance between the neck and lower ribs - and do so fairly consistently -whereas the norm in Europe was to have the head's length no longer than the distance from collar-bone to mid-breast.
When you add to that characteristic, the attenuated shanks versus large thighs evident in some of the 'bathy-' images, you have a custom in drawing which, though you and I agree it originates in the Hellenistic world, is not that of mainland Europe's graphic art.
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Koen G > 02-10-2016, 07:41 PM
Searcher > 02-10-2016, 08:55 PM
Koen G > 02-10-2016, 09:34 PM
-JKP- > 02-10-2016, 09:43 PM
(02-10-2016, 09:34 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Searcher - hey, you are right. It's strange that the points of division are the same: chin, navel, knee. The figures clearly aren't infants though. Maybe there is some symbolism behind drawing people with young childrens proportions? In a cosmological context the association with one year might be relevant. Just thinking out loud, I have no idea...
Koen G > 02-10-2016, 09:55 PM
Searcher > 02-10-2016, 09:58 PM
-JKP- > 02-10-2016, 11:58 PM
(02-10-2016, 09:55 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The children as adults thing is certainly true. Though in that case they precisely don't have these proportions. The VM proportions do resemble those given dwarfs and pygmies in certain Roman and Egyptian art. Especially also the wide upper legs are often seen in dwarfs. Though then again, I can't think of any reason to put a manuscript full of dwarfs or pygmies...
EllieV > 03-10-2016, 03:21 AM