Funny historic art

[Moose!]

Land Sailing apparently used to be a thing in China.

[NUQAR'S Kentucky "Nuqar" James XXL]

Lol what. It looks like something out of Gulliver's travels. Although I'm surprised nothing like that caught on elsewhere considering it was around for so long.

[matmohair1]

Tournament Book and Family Chronicle of Marx Walther, circa 1506-1511,
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1930, fol. 5v. 

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/06/turnierbuch.html

https://www.medieval.eu/marx-walthers-tournament-book/



Marx Walther sporting a skewer of sausages as his crest!
"The Tournament of the peasants. Notice their lack of saddles, their
make-shift armor made of straw or bark and their un-harnessed horses."

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Shrovetide Joust between Marx Walther and Georg Hofmair
with a Parade of Stewards dressed as Fools,

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"Marx Walther with an oversized lance. According to his own text he was accused of carrying a hollow lance.
This led him to place a 14-year old boy on his lance riding around the ground thus demonstrating his strength!"

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[National Founding Figure Respecter]

This is a dolphin.

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And this is a painting of Falcor a dolphin.

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[matmohair1]

1949 LIFE Magazine Chart of High Brow and Low Brow Tastes

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Revisited on, The Wilson Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976)

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[matmohair1]

Ghost Stave!

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[matmohair1]

Three Mighty Ladies from Livonia by Albrecht Dürer (1521)

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[matmohair1]

The South Sea Bubble of 1720...
Lucifer’s New Row-Barge, c.1721

  https://theprintshopwindow.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/lucifers-new-row-barge-c-1721/

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[RC-1136]

Tournament Book and Family Chronicle of Marx Walther, circa 1506-1511,
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1930, fol. 5v. 

Hey, I know this one It was part of a local exhibition here in Augsburg about Emp. Maximilian I. - Marx Walthers book was one of the pieces I did a bit of research on.

"Marx Walther with an oversized lance. According to his own text he was accused of carrying a hollow lance.
This led him to place a 14-year old boy on his lance riding around the ground thus demonstrating his strength!"

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Just to be pedantic: The boy was 13 years old, but everyone keeps copying this mistake

[Antonis]

Way to be subtle about your pedo tendencies and you size, Marx Walther.

[matmohair1]

Konrad Kyeser’s Bellifortis - "Strong in War"

Shining Shield and Armor

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Siege Cat

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Siege Demon

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