‘Weird Medieval Guys’: 50 Amusing And Confusing Medieval Paintings

St Jerome removing a thorn from a lion's paw.

So tell me how is it going with that lioness friend?

The man has such a well-painted face. He must have been on holiday when the lion’s eyes got painted!

I wouldn’t be giving a smacked out Lion a pedicure but maybe it makes him feel better.

The inspiration for the coward lion character.

How else do you immortalize your dreams.

Rabbits are featured in illuminated manuscripts, frequently as the "bad guy". Wealthy people in England in the middle ages used keep rabbits for meat. But rabbits are very bad at staying in their warrens and also bad a population control. So they had an epidemic of rabbits destroying the gardens that lower classes (and monasteries) depended on for food. Snails were also no friend to people who depend on cabbage for a staple in their diet.

Brother Leonardo must have eaten those magical mushrooms he found by the monastery.

The artist has a pretty loose grasp on how a snail moves. /J

The fungi that grew on these old manucrips made everybody a fun guy.

Notce the hooves on the elephants ?

Love the trumpet trunks on the elephants 🤣🤣

Pigs were used against elephants in wars back then as it was believed that their squeal frightened them. Unfortunately, they were sometimes set on fire to achieve this squeal. Guessing the artist had only heard about elephants and never seen them.

Considering wild boars, not so far fetched!

"Sure, I totally know what an elephant looks like..."

Funny placement of that blue branch!

Is that a branch or are you just happy to see me?

Dude looks like he's flirting and beckoning that bear

With a "come hither" hand placement

Medieval face swap meme

For this same reason, I will never try to draw a realistic cat again.

not medieval. much later.

Yeah I've seen a cat before!

Rear end looks like a dog.

I like how animals seem to be represented by someone who knew someone that knew someone that heard about what a lion may look like.

Could you paint me a Lion? You do know what a Lion looks like Don't you? Artist = A Lion, yeah, course I do.

I don't think that's a lion - look at the goat-like back legs. But idk, whatever.

"Sure, I totally know what a lion looks like..."

Awww, I love the sad potato horse.

A few observations: the second horse is standing on top of his knight, protecting him from further attack by the first knight who is holding his heavy lance like he would a pencil, and simultaneously holding so many shields he must have four arms.

The 'horse' has a Monday morning mood

the legs lol