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VMs: Re: Spa Architecture



Hi Luis,

Thanks for the comments re: Spa Architecture, Jorge and Nick. Still
intrigued here by the very Gothic thinnish columns.

If you mean the backdrop at the top of f84r, can I just point out that it looks (to me) like a continuation of the stylistic device on f78r (which may or may not be pineapple mayweed being filtered into a pool, to help reduce period pains - it also (apparently) appears on f86v).


If you also mean the thin lines on f75v (beneath the Wolkenband). I think that's actually a kind of mineral shower, travelling down a pipe into a reservoir, and then tipping down over the edge onto the bathing nymphs' heads.

I still think that the two misordered bath pages (with the three connected baths) is likely to be giving us a strong balneological hint (ie, "find an Italian spa circa 1450 that had three connected bathing area").

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: I haven't had any luck in ferreting out a copy of "Well Washed And Watered" from the Institute of Plumbing... perhaps I should Just Try Harder. :-)