Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to Main • edit-24 years ago"Eh, whaddaya gonna do? Sometimes you just get axed, ya kno?"imagemessage-square17 fedilinkarrow-up182
arrow-up182image"Eh, whaddaya gonna do? Sometimes you just get axed, ya kno?"Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to Main • edit-24 years agomessage-square17 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarekeki_ya [none/use name]hexbear4·edit-24 years agoI 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 link
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