Because it is meant to show how stoic the soldiers are (the ones in paintings are usually nobles, so they are meant to lack base emotion). Stoicism was big in medieval times.
I think I read somewhere that expressive faces just weren’t a big concern in Medieval art. It became standard to depict personal expression during the Renaissance iirc and probably has something to do with humanism if I had to guess
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Because it is meant to show how stoic the soldiers are (the ones in paintings are usually nobles, so they are meant to lack base emotion). Stoicism was big in medieval times.
It was probably either that or they were intentionally trying to be funny
I think I read somewhere that expressive faces just weren’t a big concern in Medieval art. It became standard to depict personal expression during the Renaissance iirc and probably has something to do with humanism if I had to guess
Okay I found where I got it from
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/35do0x/why_do_people_in_medieval_art_look_bored_or/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf