Some Medieval artists did know how to paint a horse. But some really didn’t, and it’s beautiful.
by Oversama
Some Medieval artists did know how to paint a horse. But some really didn’t, and it’s beautiful.
by Oversama
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Beauty in diversity
Apparently folks have always wanted to show off pictures of their sweet rides.
That’s an egg.
What year are the bottom left and bottom middle from?
1st one’s drawn during medieval era, and the second one is drawn during renaissance era.
There are about 200 years between those two paintings.
They are not in the same era…
The rare and majestic Medieval Pear-Steed.
Everyone who makes fun of that horse painting should have to post their own drawing of a horse.
Renaissance, no?
Daily reminder that what we call medieval era lasted for about 1000 years.
Early medieval art has such a vibe to it, I’d almost go so far as to say its more artistically interesting than the more realistic images.
I hate this trend of taking the worst tiny drawing made to illustrate books to represent middle age art to show that it’s inferior to the arts in the tombs of important people of anciant Egypt or painting of the nineteenth century. It’s simply cherry picking.
I mean the artists that did and didn’t know were seperated 100s of years apart
Honse
https://imgur.com/a/2HoZH2G <- my favorite medieval horse art (from one of the reproductions my university let me look at because I was taking old Norse and the professor is great and organized a trip to see the folio collection to give us a better idea of what the stuff we were translating looked like. They don’t have Icelandic books, but they have contemporaries from the continent, and because of how they got the collection and the fact that the previous owner had caused catastrophic and irreparable damage to a couple of the things he had before he died and left it to the university, I got to touch one of the ‘so badly damaged there’s no chance of conserving them’ pages)
First 2 are full time artists, 3rd one is an monk that drew the 500th horse this week for a copy of an book that is gooing to be outdated next week
Just image how poorly people think we can draw nowadays if all they see is that corporate artstyle that’s all the craze now
oh yeah? put year of origin on each of those images.
I love medieval illuminations and I’m sick of pretending otherwise. The horse looks goofy and funny. Yeah? That is the point. You think people back in the day didn’t realise that? The wacky cartoony style is amazing, and people drew/painted like that because they liked it, not because that’s what they thought a horse looked like!