Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

Ever tried to paint a cat? It turns out that it’s not as easy as you might expect. It indeed wasn’t for these Medieval artists anyway! While they excelled at painting religious scenes, portraits of Royalty, and naked ladies, this particular type of pussy offered an altogether different challenge.

There are a couple of reasons why these funny cats look as they do in the Medieval art depictions. One of them is that the primary purpose of these paintings was to translate the religious scripts to the illiterate (bear in mind that there were relatively few people who could read - monks, priests, and the nobility), and the other, unnecessary details weren't so scrupulously painted.

On the other hand, linear perspective, giving a painting depth, was not systemized until the Italian Renaissance. That's why the given ugly cats look so flat and slightly misshapen.

While most of them have got the basic shape of a feline down to a reasonable tee in these cat illustrations, it is the face that seems to provide the biggest problem. Instead of the cute kitten features we all know and love, the artists instead appear to favor a grim, almost human-like look that makes these cat paintings look a bit, well, scary. I guess the drawings do prove, though, that we have been obsessed with sharing cat memes since way before the internet!

Scroll down to check out the list of Medieval funny cat memes compiled by Bored Panda below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorites!

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Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

Yeah... Fish Is Not Gonna Work, You'll Have To Try Harder

Done With Life

What A Cutie

White Cat

Melancholic Cat Plays The Lyre

Cat With Eyebrows

Hey Cat. Stop Licking Your Butt On The Book Of Maccabees Or You’ll Get An Arrow

The True King

This Must Be A Cat From The Hallucinogenic Meadows Of Scotland

This Cat Is Starring Into Your Soul

I Know I Don't Want To Know What These Two Just Saw

This Bathing Cat

The Cat You Cannot Unsee

I Want To Have Whatever That Cat Is Having

Look At Those Lovely Eyes

Casual Cat Life

This Bishop Cat

Medieval Cheshire Cat

Is This A Cat, A Dog Or A Boar?

The One And Only Love

Cat Rider

Defiant Cat Riding A Horse

I Has Mowse

Nativity Scene

Snailcat

Zombie Petting A Cat

This Looks Like A Lizard Pretending To Be A Cat

Catnip Trip

Magpie Inspecting The Cat’s Butt

Catsnail

Medieval OMG Cat

Wild Cats

Because Why Shouldn't A Cat Be Playing A Stringed Instrument?

Cat Churning Butter

Cats’ Habits

Bipedal Cat Monsters Eating A Leech?

That Kitten Is Not... Ok

A Feline With The Blues

I Can Has A Spindle?

Cloaked And Flower-Tailed Feline

Queen Cat And A Monkey Pope Tripping Balls?

Monkey Hugging A Kitten - No Wonder The She Took It As Her Own

Medieval Cat Or The Ouroboros? 'Tis The Catouroboros

Alien Cat

White Cat

Winged Cross-Eyed Kitteh

Butt Licking Cat

He Hates Meeces To Pieces

Classic Cat And Mouse Relationship

Hudy-Gurdy Cat

Someone Please Take That Kitten Out Of It's Misery

Floral Border Cat

The King Of The Cats... Or Maybe Demons That Went Through A Food Processor?

Initial Cat

Drumming Cat

Marginal Kitten

Devil And The Cat Worshippers Kissing The Cat’s Butt

Kissing A Cat

Mouse Holder

Keyboard Cat

Games

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