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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4873736, member: 110504"]Stunning examples, [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER].</p><p>...Um, not sure of the relevance, but in [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER]'s thread, My First Siliqua!, I got into how the architectural motif on the reverse of your last three (of which [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] had another impressive example) is echoed in manuscript illustrations of the Carolingian and late Anglo-Saxon periods. Namely the Utrecht Psalter, c. early or mid-9th c., and the early 11th-c. copy, the Harley Psalter. Not sure if the links will go directly to the leaf in question, but the first one that jumps out, in both cases, is Folio 5 recto, above the beginning of Psalm 9:</p><p><a href="http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=16&res=2&x=0&y=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=16&res=2&x=0&y=1" rel="nofollow">http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=16&res=2&x=0&y=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_603_fs001r" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_603_fs001r" rel="nofollow">http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_603_fs001r</a></p><p>It's easy to speculate that, as a kind of visual meme, the architectural motif would have found its way onto late Classical manuscripts. Which, in turn, would be the 'go-to' inspiration during the Carolingian Renaissance. Both manuscripts demonstrate a lot of this kind of neo-classical, quasi-aerial perspective. Too bad that was effectively lost over succeeding centuries.</p><p>...With thanks to [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] for prodding me to actually find examples of what I was otherwise yammering about off the top of my head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4873736, member: 110504"]Stunning examples, [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER]. ...Um, not sure of the relevance, but in [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER]'s thread, My First Siliqua!, I got into how the architectural motif on the reverse of your last three (of which [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] had another impressive example) is echoed in manuscript illustrations of the Carolingian and late Anglo-Saxon periods. Namely the Utrecht Psalter, c. early or mid-9th c., and the early 11th-c. copy, the Harley Psalter. Not sure if the links will go directly to the leaf in question, but the first one that jumps out, in both cases, is Folio 5 recto, above the beginning of Psalm 9: [URL]http://psalter.library.uu.nl/page?p=16&res=2&x=0&y=1[/URL] [URL]http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_603_fs001r[/URL] It's easy to speculate that, as a kind of visual meme, the architectural motif would have found its way onto late Classical manuscripts. Which, in turn, would be the 'go-to' inspiration during the Carolingian Renaissance. Both manuscripts demonstrate a lot of this kind of neo-classical, quasi-aerial perspective. Too bad that was effectively lost over succeeding centuries. ...With thanks to [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] for prodding me to actually find examples of what I was otherwise yammering about off the top of my head.[/QUOTE]
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