Why are medieval paintings so weird/where can I find more of them?

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>>3355776
They are miniatures anon. They are small as fuck and this doesn't look that bad when looking with naked eye.
Plus it's was used alongside margins by monks as a imageboard really

>>3355776
Probably code words. They probably wanted to hide themselves from the Nobles who would target them.

>>3356264
>that image
Someone needs to make one of those party outcast memes with a monk surrounded by manuscripts and all these complaints in greentext.

They're weird because by the end of the Classical period, people had devolved into a state of mental retardation. Hence the dark ages, the lack of perspective in art for 1500 years, etc.

>>3357085
>They're weird because by the end of the Classical period, people had devolved into a state of mental retardation
hahhahahaha
do you even read history?
a bunch of savage people invaded a civilized society destroyed and raped everything, the result?

dark ages

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That's not a painting, it's the medieval equivalent of a notebook doodle. It's only a few square centimetres in size.

This is a medieval painting.

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Some of the art was unintentionally funny

>>3357085
Please be bait

It's an illustration. The passage probably describes a dream where a bird came and gave the narrator a vision.

Dream allegories were a popular genre in the Middle Ages

>>3357100
So the people were replaced/mixed with invading savages. No doubt this further spoilt the bloodlines and accelerated the degeneration of Europeans into Abrahamic dirt-farmers who could barely draw a decent stick figure.

Post-Classical history is so depressing; even the late-classical period is almost unbearable. When the ancients next walk the earth again, I pray things turn out better.

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They just are

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>>3357189
>When the ancients next walk the earth again, I pray things turn out better.
>When the ancients next walk the earth again
>ancients next walk the earth

huh...?

>>3357189
it was germanic, they destroyed the WRE, bringing the dark ages to those lands


they destroyed everything, libraries, books, scientist, artists, etc

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I remember reading something about how art back then was supposed to be for the glory of god and not man, so it's why people in art weren't very detailed and had very neutral expressions regardless of circumstance.

>>3357336

There were no dark ages. It's a shitty, long discredited meme.

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>>3356933
d-do you like it?

>>3357336
Th Classical world seems to have been in a deep, likely irreversible decline from 3rd c. CE. That the Huns did their bit along the way is unsurprising.

The absolute high point of human achievements in many regards occurred between 5th & 3rd c. in Europe and China. But, as is taught, everything with a beginning has an end.

>>3357273
Yes, this follows because there is no creation or destruction.

So, it is only a matter of change until all is reorganised and reality resembles the 5th through 3rd c. BCE. Either on Earth or another planet.

The works of Plato and Aristotle actually all exist in potential today (and possibly in actuality on another planet or on a carbonized scroll at Herculaneum). They will be written and available for viewing if you wait long enough.

It is inevitable.

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>when you gotta fill your rape quota and all that's nearby is an old lady

>>3357635
This will do

>>3355776
They were bored so they shitposted.

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>>3357804
>That armor

Anyone have the one where like 3 people are murdering a guy in a field and he's like "come on man"

>>3355776

Because they were based on interpretations by shut ins of here say.

>>3357804
>Try and eat me now asshole!

>>3357196
FLAM'D

>>3357116

That's the most bored knight fighting the world's least threatening dragon, I suppose.

>>3357804

That dragon looks like he's more hurt emotionally than physically.

>I...I thought we were friends
>I don't want to fight you, george

>>3357116
>Whatever

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>>3356264
This is true. They even had manuscript memes.

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>>3359810

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>>3359822

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>>3359825

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>>3359831
>nothin' personal, kid

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>>3359840
There seems to have been a kind of rebellion, in which the rabbits overthrew their human masters, while the dogs remained loyal.

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>>3359856
The monkeys seem to have remained a neutral party.

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>>3357347
It looked that way, because the artists were mostly monks with little ability. They were mostly drawing illustrations based on tradition, because old Roman Books had illustrations. Nobody was teaching them, before artistic conventions became commonplace.

It got better later, once it became a trade

>>3359856
That's a bear.
This is most likely an animal allegory, in the vein of something like Reynard

>>3359810
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>>3359856
wtf i hate rabbits now!

>>3357791
>BEGONE THOT

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>>3357796
This is the massacre of the infants, but here's a similar picture of Neoptolemos killing Priam with his grandson.
>>3359894
That's a man

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Here's an example of how later, ~13th century, Manuscript artists would have been taught. You have little formulae to draw your characters by.

>>3357793
>das it mane

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>>3359825
It all makes sense now

>>3359875
> I want to read about the rabbit rebellion

>>3359883
Rabbits do have a habit of being assholes in these things, no fucking clue why.

>>3360137
Rabbits are infamous for being pests in agrarian societies. fuckers don't stop eating till they shit out 10 kids and die.

a bit like niggers really

>>3355776
Better question, when did artist learned how to draw well?

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>>3359865
There were said to be some internal disputes

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>>3360230
C A L L E D F O R

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>>3357796
Fucking Homuncular Jesus

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>>3357793

>>3357105
>hell comes out of jesus' arse
kek

>>3362212
lolmao top kek :)))

>>3355776
The bird is a caladrius, it appears only to people who are on their deathbed. On the way the bird acted around them it depended whether they'd live through the illness. The miniatures are not that odd if you actually knew anything about the period.

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>>3357116
The quest for purpose in life
Day 1532
>I have been killing these cheeky dragons for years now but it isn't the same anymore ... there must be more to life

>>3362129
this pic gets me horny every time

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>>3362612

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Bosch makes most sense in the manuscript context. Most of his monsters have analogues in Medieval drolleries, as does his color preferences, pinks/reds and blues, and the way he formulated his figures.
There was a large overlap between Manuscript illuminators and panel painters in the Netherlands at the time. Painters like Jan van Eyck, Gerard David, and Rogier van der Weyden were all illuminators.

>>3356264
>my feet hurt

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>>3356264
>"O little book! A day will come in truth when someone over your page will say, "the hand that wrote it is no more."

Monk existencial crisis, right in the feels.

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>>3357100
Jesus Christ, it's enough that we have to deal with your dumb ass on /fit/. Why are you here?

>>3355776
Medieval Manuscripts on Twitter.

>>3362786
that pic is old, you should get a new one
i will post a new pic this week, lurk so you can save it