The reason why medieval babies look like middle aged men #shorts
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Published 2023-05-18
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All Comments (21)
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To be fair to those artists, I’m not sure I could do any better with the prompt “draw a baby who is also a grown man”
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"my baby is holier than yours because he has an 8-pack."
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Now explain why Medieval painting of cats looks like the artist never saw a cat personally and only had it described to them twice
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hey your baby looks medival
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Next up, cover medival paintings of cats
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that 4th baby is just peyton manning, straight up.
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The last one looks like “mother why have you forsaken me”
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I just came back from Italy. Had a lot of fun looking at these baby faces while visiting museums. Made a whole album on this topic. They are pure gold for meme creation. Thanks for the explanation!
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psa: do not give babies prostate exams
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The “Dahh” at the beginning is so perfect
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When discussing medieval art one must never forget one thing: It was all about symbolism, not realism!
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Didnt know i needed this information. Thank you for this
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I don't know, I still think most of the men who painted these have probably never seen a baby before.
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I've also heard that it was to represent that babies souls were as valuable as the souls of adults, that is to say that they are born with original sin and their being saved is just as important as it is for an adult.
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I had no idea. Excellent work. Thank you.
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the grunt at the end😂😂
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I thought it was because babies wouldn’t hold still long enough to get their portraits painted 😂 (not sure if I was told that or if I’d made an assumption)
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An elaboration I’ve read, which imo helps a lot: An image of Mary and Jesus is not intended to portray a particular moment in time, like a photograph does. The relationship between Mary and Jesus spanned his entire life, not just one particular stage of life, so the idea was to symbolically depict the entirety of that relationship by symbolically incorporating all of Jesus’s life stages into the one figure of him.
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That takes a whole range of skills to paint an adult looking baby though.
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That noise at the end got me! 🤣🤣🤣
