Sam G > 03-10-2016, 04:34 AM
Diane > 03-10-2016, 07:42 AM
Koen G > 03-10-2016, 07:49 AM
Diane > 03-10-2016, 09:01 AM
Sam G > 03-10-2016, 10:28 AM
(03-10-2016, 07:42 AM)Diane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sam - that example in Vat.Gr.1291 has been very often mentioned, but the similarity is a little illusory. What you're seeing in the inner tier of that manuscript's diagram is a relic of earlier practice and style.
Quote:The example has been raised again and again, for years. There's very little to it when the image is analysed in detail.
Quote:As of course, I finally felt someone had to do. So I did. In detail, with all the usual research and comparative matter.
Not that it made any difference...
But fyi:-
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Koen G > 03-10-2016, 10:42 AM
Sam G > 03-10-2016, 10:45 AM
(01-10-2016, 09:25 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The young man on top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is 5.4 heads tall, which is a full head more than the median. He is the least "compact" figure I measured. It is interesting that the pen lines appear to betray some uncertainty or correcting around his rump.
Koen G > 03-10-2016, 11:23 AM
(03-10-2016, 10:45 AM)Sam G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(01-10-2016, 09:25 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The young man on top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is 5.4 heads tall, which is a full head more than the median. He is the least "compact" figure I measured. It is interesting that the pen lines appear to betray some uncertainty or correcting around his rump.
I wonder if this "nymph" may have been distorted (relative to the VMS norm) for some reason relating to the way the text and illustrations are interlocked. Perhaps the illustrator realized he was going to need to leave enough room for five lines of text beneath the arms so he made the body a bit bigger than usual. This consideration wouldn't have affected the other nymphs you measured, since they aren't surrounded by blocks of text.
EllieV > 03-10-2016, 02:01 PM
(03-10-2016, 11:23 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.However, I think Diane is right to read it as a cultural indicator rather than rescaling for necessity.If I understand correctly, Diane reads it as cultural indicator (in her case anything but European) based on her own assumption that disproportionately big heads were never found in Latin Europe. This is a false assumption. Romanesque art has plenty of examples of disproportionate heads (and not only in illuminated manuscript). My example is from the Modena Cathedral, 12th century .
Koen G > 03-10-2016, 02:38 PM