Funny historic art
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Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli - 1485
Dystopian
Corbul said:Not exactly historic art, but it's a historic outfit, and the armor\weapon is kinda funny...
English Civil War Prints....
English soldier looting in Ireland
"The Parliaments unspotted ****: In Answer To Prince Roberts
Dog called Boy, and his Malignant She-Monkey" - 1643
"A Dialogue, or Rather a Parley, between Prince Rupert's Dog whose
name is Puddle and Tobies Dog, whose name is Pepper" - 1643
(Boye, alleged to be"endowed" with magical powers, shot by a musketeer as a witch looks on...)
"A Dog's Elegy: Elegy of Prince Rupert's Tears for the Late Defeat at Marston Moor
where his Beloved Dog named Boy was killed by a Valiant Soldier" - 1644
"The World Turned Upside Down" by John Taylor - 1647
Hopkins encounter with witches and their familiars
Father Christmas depicted on the Frontispiece to
John Taylor's pamphlet, The Vindication of Christmas, 1652
"The Parliaments unspotted ****: In Answer To Prince Roberts
Dog called Boy, and his Malignant She-Monkey" - 1643
"A Dialogue, or Rather a Parley, between Prince Rupert's Dog whose
name is Puddle and Tobies Dog, whose name is Pepper" - 1643
(Boye, alleged to be"endowed" with magical powers, shot by a musketeer as a witch looks on...)
"A Dog's Elegy: Elegy of Prince Rupert's Tears for the Late Defeat at Marston Moor
where his Beloved Dog named Boy was killed by a Valiant Soldier" - 1644
"The World Turned Upside Down" by John Taylor - 1647
Hopkins encounter with witches and their familiars
Father Christmas depicted on the Frontispiece to
John Taylor's pamphlet, The Vindication of Christmas, 1652
ＤＹＳＴＯＰＩＡＮ said:Corbul said:Not exactly historic art, but it's a historic outfit, and the armor\weapon is kinda funny...
Hmm, not really. My idea was that the shield-sized shield was counterproductive as a gauntlet, but when it's a spiked gauntlet, that's a different thing
matmohair1 said:(Boye, alleged to be"endowed" with magical powers, shot by a musketeer as a witch looks on...)
"A Dog's Elegy: Elegy of Prince Rupert's Tears for the Late Defeat at Marston Moor
where his Beloved Dog named Boy was killed by a Valiant Soldier" - 1644
these look more like comics than anything else (with the exception of the one with the British soldier.
Also - poor dog
The Dragon of Wantley & The Moore of Moore-hall
https://abookofcreatures.com/2017/11/13/adventures-in-dragon-slaying-with-the-dragon-of-wantley/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_of_Wantley
The Prodigious / Monstrous Tartar!
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3185367&partId=1
The Madagascan Monster
Crane-Man by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
https://abookofcreatures.com/2017/11/13/adventures-in-dragon-slaying-with-the-dragon-of-wantley/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_of_Wantley
The Prodigious / Monstrous Tartar!
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3185367&partId=1
The Madagascan Monster
Crane-Man by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
matmohair1 said:The Dragon of Wantley & The Moore of Moore-hall
The Prodigious / Monstrous Tartar!
The Madagascan Monster
Crane-Man by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
Damn, those are some messed-up creatures!
Speaking of the Dragon, I have a book where there's something about a poisonous snake-like dragon that lived in water, and because of its fast regeneration, the only way to kill it was to bleed it to death, and the only way to do that was to fight it while wearing spiked armor as it tangles around you. So, I tried finding the picture from that book, but instead found this:
Isn't the Basilisk just adorable?
Poultry knight!
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An unhappy wife is complaining to the kadı about her husband's impotence. Ottoman miniature
Edit:What kadı(judge) holds is a zibik(Turkish dildo).It is the unhappy wife's evidence for her husband's impotence.
Most Ottoman image ever.
KhergitLancer80 said:
An unhappy wife is complaining to the kadı about her husband's impotence. Ottoman miniature
Edit:What kadı(judge) holds is a zibik(Turkish dildo).It is the unhappy wife's evidence for her husband's impotence.
At first I thought it was a burrito, then I started reading the description, and thought it was the husband's actual instrument. Then I read the whole description.
Also, Captured Joe - hilarious!
KhergitLancer80
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Captured Joe said:
Funny thing is this is the only miniature we have about kadıs.
Asia depicted in the form of Pegasus by Heinrich Bünting, c.1590
'Itinerarium sacrae scripturae; Das ist ein Reisebuch über
die ganze heilige Schrift in zwey Bücher geteilt'
Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, also by Heinrich Bünting, 1582
This Porcineograph, 1875 map of the United States
in shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing
the different states, with notations of state foods
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/This_Porcineograph.jpg
'Itinerarium sacrae scripturae; Das ist ein Reisebuch über
die ganze heilige Schrift in zwey Bücher geteilt'
Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, also by Heinrich Bünting, 1582
This Porcineograph, 1875 map of the United States
in shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing
the different states, with notations of state foods
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/This_Porcineograph.jpg
matmohair1 said:Asia depicted in the form of Pegasus by Heinrich Bünting, c.1590
'Itinerarium sacrae scripturae; Das ist ein Reisebuch über
die ganze heilige Schrift in zwey Bücher geteilt'
Map of Europe shaped as a virgin, also by Heinrich Bünting, 1582
This Porcineograph, 1875 map of the United States
in shape of a pig, surrounded by pigs representing
the different states, with notations of state foods
As a person from 'Rvssia', I find these maps offensive for not including my country - as in Wallachia and Transylvania were more important
Angus McBride was the best. 
