What’s With Those Hilarious Medieval Portrayals of Animals?
about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
What’s With Those Hilarious Medieval Portrayals of Animals? Skip to content Unknown artist, “Snail” (c. 1350), The Netherlands, illumination on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant’s Der naturen bloeme (image via Wikimedia Commons ) The internet has a voracious appetite for strange Medieval drawings. Figures engaged in odd behaviors , misshapen cats and dogs , and animals with disturbingly human expressions go viral every few months, seemingly painted a thousand years ago precisely for the purpose of becoming memes today.