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Detailed breakdown of vector components and medieval art techniques synthesized in this illumination.
Medieval artists rarely observed live specimens directly. Instead, illuminators working in scriptoria interpreted symbolic descriptions from Latin translations of the Physiologus. Bats were routinely drawn with canine or human faces, rodent torsos, and scalloped bird wings because theological symbolism superseded empirical morphology.