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RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts - Bernd - 14-09-2026
(14-09-2026, 05:02 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you asked people today to draw from memory a detailed picture of some plant that is supposedly well known -- like a dandelion, a rose bush, a carrot or corn plant, even a palm tree -- eight of ten of the results would be as flawed as the VMS plants.That's certainly right to a degree, but there are limits. You wouldn't draw a looping in the staircase because you know that's not how things work. People inherently know that plant stems do not branch and fuse creating loops. You find the oddest plants in medieval herbals, because imagery was often derived from the description an the artist had never seen the specific plant IRL. But with very rare exceptions for specific reasons like the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., you will not find stem loops and fused plants like in the VM. If this was an isolated case, one might argue this was just the artist's style, but it is not. Root tables are another such case that are probably derived from plants drawn inside a pond or on a patch of soil like in some Dioscorides copies, which the VM author just misunderstood.
Our memory is a bizarre tool. You think you can see in your mind a perfectly clear image of the staircase in your home, or the building of your school, which you have seen thousands of times from all possible angles. But try to bring up that mental image and count the steps in that staircase, or the windows in that building. You will find that you can't. (Unless you are one of very few people with "photographic memory".) And it is the same with other objects, like plants.
RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts - DG97EEB - 14-09-2026
RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts - eggyk - 14-09-2026
RE: The nymphs are possibly inspired from Dante manuscripts - Oscroft - 14-09-2026