tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post8559081368382859028..comments2019-07-12T06:07:10.084+02:00JB Pigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-30755243753558639492016-09-29T10:46:28.550+02:002016-09-29T10:46:28.550+02:00It would be equally legitimate to guess that these are nests and the people are eggs. I don't think there's enough evidence yet to figure it out.JB Pigginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-9433748912504051762016-09-29T10:43:09.145+02:002016-09-29T10:43:09.145+02:00Interesting. But I suspect it's something cultural which we are not sensing at this distance. Ramifications in the early medieval stemmata of works by Cassidorus terminated in what Karl-August Wirth called "inkwells". They weren't really inkwells of course, but they reminded Wirth of things he had on his school desk as a boy, so it was an OK analogy. I say nutshells because I think "walnuts" when I see these. But there's an artist's logic here which still eludes us in those drawings. And I don't think the medieval and renaissance artist is yet trying to force a link to a tree. That begins in the 16th centuryJB Pigginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-18097091198038577122016-09-28T15:59:11.007+02:002016-09-28T15:59:11.007+02:00Do you think that the "nutshell" image might be inspired by the idea that trees come from seeds / fruits?David Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578729952036086391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807477828731224772.post-77928093544725419712015-12-05T15:48:11.235+01:002015-12-05T15:48:11.235+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Shalin Siriwaradhanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134034541170679170noreply@blogger.com