Given permission to digress: I question the source of your long-standing use of the banner (or banderole). Do you remember? Surely not from Renaissance architectural detail alone, or flags flying from lances. It is exactly the sort of inscription curling through so much of Byzantine art, and from there to Italian - carrying verses from the so-called Old Testanment in countless icons and pictures of holy men, evangelists, etc. These also depend on the viewers' familiarity with the quotation, as usually only a few words are really legible and the rest must be supplied by memory. Such a banner also flies from the staff of the Angel Gabriel during most Annunciation scenes, with the Hail Mary Full of Grace winding around the staff. These scripts fly and curl around in every direction, much more like your work than stone could ever be. Sorry I can't bring illustrations here, but they aren't hard to find. Carry on -
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Given permission to digress: I question the source of your long-standing use of the banner (or banderole). Do you remember? Surely not from Renaissance architectural detail alone, or flags flying from lances. It is exactly the sort of inscription curling through so much of Byzantine art, and from there to Italian - carrying verses from the so-called Old Testanment in countless icons and pictures of holy men, evangelists, etc. These also depend on the viewers' familiarity with the quotation, as usually only a few words are really legible and the rest must be supplied by memory. Such a banner also flies from the staff of the Angel Gabriel during most Annunciation scenes, with the Hail Mary Full of Grace winding around the staff. These scripts fly and curl around in every direction, much more like your work than stone could ever be. Sorry I can't bring illustrations here, but they aren't hard to find. Carry on -
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