Why did everyone forget how to draw around the time Christianity

>>2473328
Regression of art

>>2473328
The church forbid any art other than a strictly proscribed style with strictly proscribed religious subject matter.

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Medieval art thread?

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>>2473460
Wrong, at least in the West.

In the West literacy, and book production, fell out of practice as the former Empire transitioned into the more modern Western European kingdoms.

Decorative designs became more incidental and skilled artists were replaced by monks who copied from older works.


Attached is a copy, c.a. 5th Century, of an Ancient Roman manuscript of the Works of Terrance. Not how the portrait is fairly verisimilar and accurate to actual Roman Dress, and the figures are still fairly classical, though more ill-wrought.

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>>2473460
>>2474046
And here is a Carolingian, c.a. 9th century, copy of this, or another intermediate, copy. Note how the art is a rough caricature, and very styled.

The art of illumination was lost, and monks had to do with copying in their meantime, as their job was not drawing, but being pious.

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>>2473460
>>2474046
>>2474054
Eventually Illumination reverted back into the hands of craftsmen, not monks, and they developed their own styles, which were copied quite uniformly, though not without idiosyncrasy, until the Renaissance brought back the idea of life drawing.

Here is a page from Villard of Honnecourt's "Sketch Book" showing some models which may have been used in Illumination studios to teach students how to draw properly.

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>>2474061
Here's a page from the Morgan Bible that employ designs similar to those found in Honnecourt's book.

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>>2474061
>>2474066
Full bodied figures of Honnecourt for better comparison

>>2473328
Because "ancient" art was made during the alleged Renaissance.

A better question would be why does /his/ keep asking questions and then ignore the only serious answer every single time.

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>>2474071
This nigger.

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Apparently, "ancient" Romans had pineapples and mangoes.

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>>2474169
They had pinecones and plum fruits.

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>>2474186
>serving "pinecones" along with edible fruits
Come on lad.

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>>2474186
http://pomonacampana.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/103.pdf

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>>2474186
Also, they are golden colored with leaves not brown with spikes like a pinecone.

>>2474169
>>2474241
So did someone try to do carbon dating on those to prove if it's a forgery or not?

>>2474246
This seems controversial, but still interesting.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/293933-reconsidering-history-the-discovery-of-america-thousands-of-years-ago/
https://rogueclassicism.com/2013/09/21/did-the-ancient-greeks-discover-america/

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>>2474255
>first it was Vikangz
>now it's Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians and basically everyone in the ancient world

How deep does the rabbit hole go?

>>2474210
>what is a garnish

>>2474261
Unsurprisingly many people, hacks, have talked about China being the first to discover the New World from the West.

I guess they were bummed out that all of the candidates were White people