Funny historic art

[Antonis]

That woman looks dead. Also, you should paint over them nipples, now I'm scarred and tainted. 

 

[Mamlaz]

A response to movie/television actors never wearing helmets in medieval/fantasy movies;

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I also find it strange he is going for the thick frontal cranium bone instead of the eyes.

Probably just easier to draw.

 

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Or more humane. Or would you say they were too desensitized for such violence against other humans?

 

[Mamlaz]

Perhaps it is a warning poke.

 

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He totally deserves a warning if he's sitting backwards on his horse.

 

[Elfy]

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I stumbled upon this in Ostia, an ancient Roman town. I was scarred for life.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Greatest Freakout Ever

 

[Swissky]

 

[Beny]

I stumbled upon this in Ostia, an ancient Roman town. I was scarred for life.

I went to Ostia as a kid, that place was incredible. I'd seen roman ruins in the north of England plenty of times as a kid but this place blew my mind.

 

[Anarion]

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I stumbled upon this in Ostia, an ancient Roman town. I was scarred for life.

Ah, the reverse elephant. A timeless maneuver that never loses its charm.

 

[matmohair1]

page-turner  from Hafez's Divān

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Funky Persian art...

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young Sultan Mehmed II's
doodled-up notebook !!!

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[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

I find informal amateur doodles like that way more interesting than big rennaisance finished pieces, at least historically. Got any more of those? I've tried searching for old doodles like that before, but it always comes up with the same Onfim drawings everyone's seen 50 times.

 

[Vaegir Luchnik]

He's drawings aren't that bad, perhaps he should've becoming an artist instead of destroying the Byzantine Empire

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Maybe he was the hitler of his day.

His bottom drawings look like something out of Asterix or Tintin. What's strange is that Roman graffiti looks very similar in style with those caricatured, nose-heavy profile drawings.

 

[matmohair1]

horse & gilded saddle? ... check! ... bow & arrow? ... check!... 
the most privileged POW in history!

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heraldry that smells fishy!

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the army of fools...

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[Ililsa]

John-Paul Laurens' vision of the Cadaver Synod

AKA: He's pleading the fifth.

 

[matmohair1]

"Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks

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[YourStepDad]

Absolutely love it, especially when you read about the reply itself.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

I just saved all of those.



Warning: contains cartoon genitals

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[Patchouli Knowledge]

That's not even close to the weirdest Japanese cartoon I've seen.