I wonder if you realise how this is literally the reason why. A meme is basically a collective thought, or subconsciously shared knowledge. So modern memes are inside jokes we all get, we just collectively forgot the meaning for these.
@@arthas640 hey, hey my son I know is creepy I mean he does now at 16 looking like a twig with hair. But as a pre-me he wasn't that creepy looking.....lol
Is that part of where the theory that the model for Mona Lisa was a man came from? I had never heard of men posing as women in paintings until literally just now.
@@brittneybrisbin744 I'm pretty sure it's because it was seen as inappropriate to be alone with a naked woman in a room even if you just wanted to make a painting. Women's bodies were (and still are to an extent) more sexualized that men's were
@@yelloenope they creted these beings and played with them so they could experiment what they should more. Also mutilated children that were took from parents and mutilated that u wouldnt be able to even know if it was human. So that they could laugh they turned them into jesters and jokers and erased their memory😉😉😉
Proof of paternity was a big reason. I was expecting you would mention this. It was important for lords or kings to have their child portrayed as a little them as the painting could be the only representation of the child heir that most subjects or even high born feudal families would see. The rightful heir was very important to people so the depictions of children were often made to look like a mirror image of the father. This had a duel effect, showing the child as the pure image of the father, but also showing that the child was different and above the lower children cause he or she was "more developed and matured."
Please do a video on why they drew animals so awkwardly. My favorite pieces through the ages are the ones where they draw animals with human like limbs or weird proportions. I know a bit of why they did it, but a full video would be great. Love this channel!
Live animals will not strike a pose and sit still like a human model. This forced artists to render them mostly from their own imagination rather than live subjects. The more exotic or wild the animal, the more ridiculous it looked. Dogs and horses are usually pretty accurate but paintings of monkeys and big cats look wonky.
OK I've watched probably 30 videos on this channel...and this is by far my favorite! Something about the creepy-ass pictures combined with the narrator's deadpan delivery of savage critiques 😂😂😂 Saving this to my "watch when I need cheering up" list
Because all logic has to suspended to even believe in the base of the story in the first place. If a girl can get pregnant by god and have a magic baby is anything else really off the table? 🤷🏽♂️
Prez Mil Ha! You’re right, that’s an even better example. There’s just no way that she magically got pregnant. It’s not like they had artificial insemination back then
@@lissi6931 Jesus was sent by god through a human woman, Mary.Not magic, but the holy spirit. Jesus was a wholly human. So he was subjected to pain, suffering, and sorrow like other human beings.
@@DSDaly It isn’t the pose that is the funniest part… It’s the damned awful proportions, perspective, and shape of the baby in general! It is absolutely hysterical. I would get an F in any of my life drawing classes if I drew a body to look anything like that lol.
So, basically, the Church wanted to show Jesus' majesty since birth and so, in order to do that, they made all of his depictions look like that demon baby from 'The Passion of the Christ'. And I find that majestically ironic. And hillarious.
People lived much shorter lives back then and needed many children because of children dying and as a retirement fund. So they would have started getting children as a much younger age than today.
Having to die from multiple plagues and starvation, smallpox ect..would make u depressed too ...life seem rough in those days ....yet we still complain and we're well off then they was
If you've not come across it, check out poet/essayist/eco-activist Terry Tempest William's book "Leap," a meditation and memoir on Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by-the-by! This is a short poetic excerpt of reflections the painting inspired in her, as read by her in a radio interview: th-cam.com/video/jzBEjobLfwM/w-d-xo.html
Religion.. as a system of do's and don'ts ... is pretty lame. A real relationship with God is a totally different story. Ask God to show you Himself. Tell Him that you want to know Him better... then wait for it.
I kinda like the look, ever since seeing a 12th century wooden Madonna & child in the St. Louis Art Museum. It depicts the stark, strange almost grotesque mood of the times. I mean, what're they gonna think 800 years from now when they see pictures of celebrities.
Me again, lol Would love to see an episode on why cats looked weird in medieval art too... human faces, walking on two legs, etc. I’m curious and sure an episode on the subject would be hilarious. :)
This was a thing through the 17th and 18th century, I swear. The best way I’ve heard it described is that artists painted babies and children as if they’d only ever heard a vague description of children but had never actually seen one. There’s one from the 1600s I remember seeing where the kids kinda looked like they had fish faces.
When Baby Jesuses lost their amazing Marvel Comic-styled 6-packs, they also became more anatomically correct in other obvious ways. I can imagine the shock of the first such male Jesus in the awakening of the Renaissance audience.....
I love, love, love this channel! Please could you do a video about what everyday life was like for a medieval woman with the differences between both rich and poor. I would be thrilled if you did this and I just want to say I find your videos fascinating, interesting and informative and also very funny and entertaining. Please keep it up!
Considering the fact that children were basically treated as mini-adults during that period, it's no surprise that at such young ages they are painted to look so stressed. lol
"Perhaps making other people want to marry their toddler".... Yeah... That concept was not even considered troubling during medial times.. Marrying off kids at the age of 6 or 7..
The real reason is because children tend to move a lot and are unruly which makes them hard to paint so parents opt to rent a dwarf to pose as their baby so they can be painted.
Speaking of other art, I think the diptych is a really cool and unique type of artwork. For example, "Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment."
Are we ever going to find out why so many medieval texts are decorated with paintings of knights fighting giant snails, or at the very least why artists chose *that* randomness of all things?
Probably the snails are actually snakes and snakes has been seen as a symbol of the devil since genesis, same logic used to paint a snake being treaded by Mary.
I was just wondering about this after I had seen a medieval painting of the Madonna and baby Jesus earlier. So glad I stumbled on this video because I have always been so confused by this lol
Another medieval art video idea: Why does medieval art so often show wildly unrealistic, at times almost surreal approach, to things like scale and perspective?
Another rather off-putting detail is the early representation of cats. I can understand the oddness of critters drawn form written descriptions, but surely they must have seen cats?
The mothers in the art looks pretty disappointed of their child😂
Lmao😂😂 Can ya blame them??
stayce751 no😆😂🤣
JSJSAN FR THO😭
😂
@@stayce751 we can't 👁️👄👁️
Artist: I shall call him Mini-Me.
Joe R M stop it I can’t stop laughing😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s art ppl art 😂
@Millian Macalintal if you never saw him on "Boston Public" I recommend tracking it down.
😂😂😂😂
Lol
Abs?? Yet another unrealistic body expectation for babies 🤦♂️
Flesh Wolves, LoL 😂
Those kids can bench press 50 pounds
@@crabyjen yea they can fall from tree and be completely fine
Just some Random Banana With internet access 😂
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣
For the memes, they did it for the memes
Facts
😂😂😂
I wonder if you realise how this is literally the reason why. A meme is basically a collective thought, or subconsciously shared knowledge. So modern memes are inside jokes we all get, we just collectively forgot the meaning for these.
They did
So you're saying they were meme spirited.
So you're telling me medieval babies aren't just really young looking old men?
Justin y?
i think so
Plot twist
Wow I’m here with da real Justin y
Not always muccul the medieval baby for example playtube.ws/embed-qw28vwg609jv/MykulToyBoy.html
This is what i see when people show me picture's of their kids saying "aren't they the cutest😍"
Lol
tiny demons
bluetilda
It’s a creepy lil vagina monster. Ew, it’s the only thing that comes outta another person that people want to hold. They’re so grody...
If my kids read this, I of coarse don’t mean you all. 😉
How kind of you , hope you have a kid someday, and that will be what you see. That's nasty of you.
If you thought your baby pictures are cringy, remember the Medieval baby Jesus
LMAO
Thank God there weren't driver's licenses to do....
It's not Jesus but Satan why do u think he looks evil.
Still not as creepy as a newborn, especially pre-mes
@@arthas640 hey, hey my son I know is creepy I mean he does now at 16 looking like a twig with hair. But as a pre-me he wasn't that creepy looking.....lol
Finally. Someone's asking the important questions
😂😂
Nah the most important were women. They look so weird.
@@mera4309 same
@@mera4309 The men weren’t looking too great either. They all had long, sickly faces.
The one channel that stands up to its name:
Definitely
I'm using "Homunculus" as an insult now.
Hilarious....how homunculussic of you😂😂😂😂😂😂
Settle down, Paracelsus!
I too shall use it every chance I get. 🤣🤣🤣
*a Homunculus for the restofus*
Lmao same
Artist: paint baby Jesus
Jesus himself: Hol up!
Lol, you were just trying to post a joke and you got a Q reply. These people are nuts.
@Lawtrina Kerkula what the actual heck, are you this committed to a joke?
In every depiction of the virgin Mary, why does she have a "This aint my child" look
If my baby looked like that, I’d have the same expression lmao
@@ratadedospatas1 I mean same
So does Joseph
It aint!
Don’t chant “hummunculus” into a mirror 13 times, or one will suddenly appear.
Mrs. Kennimer
It's HOMUNCULUS not "hummunculus"
ClaudeMagicbox you don’t have many friends, do you?
Unwarranted >:o
They are made by alchemy
Whattt
Do a video where they used to use nothing but male models for the women in their paintings. Equally horrifying.
lmao yes, the oddly shaped/placed boobs
Is that part of where the theory that the model for Mona Lisa was a man came from? I had never heard of men posing as women in paintings until literally just now.
@@brittneybrisbin744 it was mostly for nudes, not portraits
@@julieg785 Oh, really? Why?
@@brittneybrisbin744 I'm pretty sure it's because it was seen as inappropriate to be alone with a naked woman in a room even if you just wanted to make a painting. Women's bodies were (and still are to an extent) more sexualized that men's were
Do a video on why cats in old paintings often look like tiny, weird human-tiger crossbreeds.
Lol they couldnt get an actual cat to hold still so they used their imagination
There's a video by art deco explaining that, it was very interesting! :)
They have the same ancestors
@@yelloenope they creted these beings and played with them so they could experiment what they should more. Also mutilated children that were took from parents and mutilated that u wouldnt be able to even know if it was human. So that they could laugh they turned them into jesters and jokers and erased their memory😉😉😉
Proof of paternity was a big reason. I was expecting you would mention this. It was important for lords or kings to have their child portrayed as a little them as the painting could be the only representation of the child heir that most subjects or even high born feudal families would see. The rightful heir was very important to people so the depictions of children were often made to look like a mirror image of the father. This had a duel effect, showing the child as the pure image of the father, but also showing that the child was different and above the lower children cause he or she was "more developed and matured."
Please do a video on why they drew animals so awkwardly. My favorite pieces through the ages are the ones where they draw animals with human like limbs or weird proportions. I know a bit of why they did it, but a full video would be great.
Love this channel!
I know some of them were because they were drawing animals they'd never actually seen before, and only had verbal descriptions to go off of.
Live animals will not strike a pose and sit still like a human model. This forced artists to render them mostly from their own imagination rather than live subjects. The more exotic or wild the animal, the more ridiculous it looked. Dogs and horses are usually pretty accurate but paintings of monkeys and big cats look wonky.
Before photography the animals in motion could not be adequately seen.
OK I've watched probably 30 videos on this channel...and this is by far my favorite! Something about the creepy-ass pictures combined with the narrator's deadpan delivery of savage critiques 😂😂😂 Saving this to my "watch when I need cheering up" list
🤣🤣🤣😭💯😭😭💀💯
"Jesus induced nightmare fuel" made me burst out laughing.
Sounds like a great album name
They say Jesus never aged, but his whole thing was that other than being the son of God he was just a normal man… and normal men were babies once…
Right? The logic makes no sense to me
Because all logic has to suspended to even believe in the base of the story in the first place. If a girl can get pregnant by god and have a magic baby is anything else really off the table? 🤷🏽♂️
Prez Mil Ha! You’re right, that’s an even better example. There’s just no way that she magically got pregnant. It’s not like they had artificial insemination back then
@@lissi6931 Spiritually adult, he forgot to mention that they considered him spiritually an adult not physically.
@@lissi6931 Jesus was sent by god through a human woman, Mary.Not magic, but the holy spirit. Jesus was a wholly human. So he was subjected to pain, suffering, and sorrow like other human beings.
Adult tiny Jesus with a necklace and his hand down Mary's shirt cracks me up.
It's actually pretty common for babies to do that so maybe that's why they posed him that way, though an adult looking on is a bit werid...
Looks a little like Putin
7:10
Putin Jesus
@@DSDaly
It isn’t the pose that is the funniest part… It’s the damned awful proportions, perspective, and shape of the baby in general! It is absolutely hysterical. I would get an F in any of my life drawing classes if I drew a body to look anything like that lol.
“There are a lot of problems with what I just said......but we’re going to move on.” 😂🤣😂🤣
Hahaha! Right?
That baby in ‘Who framed Roger Rabbit’ smoking a cigar.
LMAOO
Me: yay finally i can sleep early tonight~
My brain at 3am: why do babies in medieval art look like creepy adults?
before Jesus died he whispered “do it for the lulz”
i hate you lmao 🤣
@My Imaginary Invisible Friend no
Lol
Lmao “time to throw poggers “
I saw the title and I'm dying 🤣
I've wondered so much about this. They're nice memes tho.
So, basically, the Church wanted to show Jesus' majesty since birth and so, in order to do that, they made all of his depictions look like that demon baby from 'The Passion of the Christ'. And I find that majestically ironic. And hillarious.
As a Christian, i find this comment extremely hilarious lmaooo😂😂. What a royal injustice to the King of Kings😂
@@missmary1761LMAOOO
They try to creep out the pedophiles
Well, that failed. But then again people were getting married as children.
@@andrewharper1609 Yes, but as we can see in the pictures they were developing more early :))
People lived much shorter lives back then and needed many children because of children dying and as a retirement fund. So they would have started getting children as a much younger age than today.
A lot of paintings are creepy already as it is
I'd like to know why everyone in medieval art looks so depressed.
Because everyone was depressed. Can't imagine I'd be super happy living in medieval times either...
Life sucked back then. And they were probably bored.
Having to die from multiple plagues and starvation, smallpox ect..would make u depressed too ...life seem rough in those days ....yet we still complain and we're well off then they was
@LagiNaLangAko23 🤣
MzARavenLunatic 🤣and not to mention: the rotten teeth🙃😌😬
'was there ever a time shredded abs weren't cool? ' hahaha
Infancy
Men are still obsessed with wanting that....
"Jesus-induced nightmare fuel"
That one got me, that's the perfect description. Spot on
I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought baby Jesus was absolutely creepy as hell! 😬😂
Early scientists: Children are small, defective adults.
Me: you’re not wrong.
You are both correct.
Babies painted to look like their fathers, so’s naughty mothers could pass them as the dad...
Its not always about that.here's the story of medieval boy toy playtube.ws/embed-qw28vwg609jv/MykulToyBoy.html
Mother: “Give my baby abs, please.”
Artist: “Okay, normal or six pack?”
I'd love to see a video about the art symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch
If you've not come across it, check out poet/essayist/eco-activist Terry Tempest William's book "Leap," a meditation and memoir on Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by-the-by! This is a short poetic excerpt of reflections the painting inspired in her, as read by her in a radio interview: th-cam.com/video/jzBEjobLfwM/w-d-xo.html
Let’s lobby for one🤗
Religion.. as a system of do's and don'ts ... is pretty lame. A real relationship with God is a totally different story. Ask God to show you Himself. Tell Him that you want to know Him better... then wait for it.
I would love to see more "day in the life" videos especially a day in the life of a child at work in the industrial era! Great video once again :)
We can all dream that day comes!
At the end you said, "eventually, Renaissance art became all but extinct."
Don't you mean, "Medieval art became all but extinct"?
Thank you Renaissance for making babies cute again.
The face only a mother would love.
I kinda like the look, ever since seeing a 12th century wooden Madonna & child in the St. Louis Art Museum.
It depicts the stark, strange almost grotesque mood of the times.
I mean, what're they gonna think 800 years from now when they see pictures of celebrities.
Me again, lol
Would love to see an episode on why cats looked weird in medieval art too... human faces, walking on two legs, etc.
I’m curious and sure an episode on the subject would be hilarious.
:)
There is a book called "Medieval Cats" by Kathleen Walker Meikle which you might like.
1:10 her face it just gets me
Its perfect.She looks terrified of her creation.
She's thinking "oh god what did I bring into this world"
This answers a lot of questions I never knew I had.
Everyone looked like they have a few chromosomes less back then
Or fetal alcohol syndrome. Considering people didn't walk around with bottles of clean water.
Hey can you do the life of Michelangelo
2:06 medieval Nicolas Cage
@Lawtrina Kerkula was that necessary ?
Lmao...I had to go back
Ghost rider really around since them days
I LOVED this video! Yay! Those were some crazy looking BBz! Hahaha I love all the theories behind them as well. ✨
Wait, Baby Jesus was just a humunculus?
@PirateCat91 That's my point!
Well, Adam was just a clay golem.
This was a thing through the 17th and 18th century, I swear. The best way I’ve heard it described is that artists painted babies and children as if they’d only ever heard a vague description of children but had never actually seen one. There’s one from the 1600s I remember seeing where the kids kinda looked like they had fish faces.
O M F G, its Ross Geller @2:05
Oh my gawd 😂😂😂😂
This is the funniest thing😂😂😂
Hahah
They one upped this with their video on why classical art depicted men with tiny wangs.
1:37 "This particular species of Jesus induced nightmare fuel." 😂🤣😂🤣
"Why do Babies in Medieval art look like creepy adults?" Creepy artists. (Durr).
6:52 looks like Michael Jackson
Gabriela 7:09 for Putin
@@Morfeusm yeah,collar and all
"You hairy homunculus!" - disparaging epithet flung at Klinger by Winchester in MASH.
When Baby Jesuses lost their amazing Marvel Comic-styled 6-packs, they also became more anatomically correct in other obvious ways. I can imagine the shock of the first such male Jesus in the awakening of the Renaissance audience.....
"Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur.. " (the tunes begin at 6:00 something)..
lol
I would love an app to make us all look like medieval creepy babies lol
or filter lol
Baby's do look like cute lil old men at 1st.. just for awhile tho lmao
Lol mine did. He had hair on the sides on back of his head but was bald on top, just like a middle aged man....he looked like a little old man.
I'm a girl, so. That wasn't the case with me. Not that I know of. Lmfao.
Plot twist. Those were giants taking adult humans as pets.
The title alone is hilarious 😂😂😂
I love, love, love this channel! Please could you do a video about what everyday life was like for a medieval woman with the differences between both rich and poor. I would be thrilled if you did this and I just want to say I find your videos fascinating, interesting and informative and also very funny and entertaining. Please keep it up!
Content Creator: This will get them...!
Average Viewer: I need to watch this again, I was laughing so hard I missed most of the video.
"Disturbingly muscular babies with enviable abs." Hahaha
thanks mate, i was just wondering that 2 days ago while visiting the bella arte museum of Sevilla,really interesting video
7:06
Baby Jesus Putin: Give me milk!
Mom: No, stop!
I know someone gonna mentioned that.
No wonder he left the cave in 3 days.
Considering the fact that children were basically treated as mini-adults during that period, it's no surprise that at such young ages they are painted to look so stressed. lol
Jesus looking like Chucky, definitely creepy.
A+ video!
Unforgettable video, that is a weird history!
They also had a rough voice because of the cigars they smoked 😏😂
Medieval paintings had unrealistic beauty expectations for babies
"Perhaps making other people want to marry their toddler"....
Yeah... That concept was not even considered troubling during medial times.. Marrying off kids at the age of 6 or 7..
Still ain't in the middle east
@@sergiowinter5383 ..Or Tennessee..
When your baby comes out looking like it has three kids and a mortgage.
1:45 why does it look like roger from american dad😭💀
The real reason is because children tend to move a lot and are unruly which makes them hard to paint so parents opt to rent a dwarf to pose as their baby so they can be painted.
Can you guys please make a video about the Incas because you have done mayans and aztecs already?
2:58 - I legit screamed in terror and startled my pets. I'm not sure why out of everything else, that was the one that set me off.
I knew the comment section was gonna be lit as soon as I saw the title lmao
"You're a grown azz child, time to work the vineyard."
Haha ancient baby go chunky haha
@Lawtrina Kerkula Hey can you
❤️✨👉NOT👈✨❤️
Edit: she deleted the comment
This is by far the BEST video I've EVER seen!! Thank you sir for your wonderful delivery of the narration!
This made me laugh way too much! 😂 the narrator is hilarious! 😂
Speaking of other art, I think the diptych is a really cool and unique type of artwork.
For example, "Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment."
Are we ever going to find out why so many medieval texts are decorated with paintings of knights fighting giant snails, or at the very least why artists chose *that* randomness of all things?
Probably the snails are actually snakes and snakes has been seen as a symbol of the devil since genesis, same logic used to paint a snake being treaded by Mary.
1:13 even Mary's having a hard time buying it
04:50 feels bad for Mary in this compilation. Looks like baby Jesus slapping her on the cheek or trying to get away from her!
This has to be one of my fav episodes ever, I laughed so hard!
I don't knew that Madonna is that old
😂🤣👍
I was just wondering about this after I had seen a medieval painting of the Madonna and baby Jesus earlier. So glad I stumbled on this video because I have always been so confused by this lol
QUESTION: Why do babies in medieval art look like creepy adults?
ANSWER: There was no Photoshop
lol
4:06 baby on left looks like Chucky and E.T. had a baby..🤣🤣
Looks like Kuato from Total Recall IMO
"Other infants in medieval are beginning to share kid JC's bizzarely Middle-age characteristics."
As a mother, I can confirm that children are, in fact, just small, defective adults.
Another medieval art video idea: Why does medieval art so often show wildly unrealistic, at times almost surreal approach, to things like scale and perspective?
Just missing the beard 😅
damn! you got me with that 2:58 hahahaha!
Another rather off-putting detail is the early representation of cats. I can understand the oddness of critters drawn form written descriptions, but surely they must have seen cats?
"Jeeeeerreeee, you've got. To see. The baybee!"
"Is it me, or was that one ugly baby?!"
*End of Seinfeld references*