Relatable.
I love how non-plussed people tend to be in battle paintings. Everyone here is just waiting for the end of their shift.
lol this was used for a loading screen in a Mount and Blade mod I used to play, it made me crack up every time
Do you remember which mod it was from? I recognized it but I can’t remember the specific mod, I’m thinking 1257AD but I’m not sure
Guy with his throat slit be like "I wonder what dinner was going to be"
Dude's head got split so bad his stomach is spurting blood, but he's still vibin
Because it is meant to show how stoic the soldiers are (the ones in paintings are usually nobles, so they are meant to lack base emotion). Stoicism was big in medieval times.
It was probably either that or they were intentionally trying to be funny
I think I read somewhere that expressive faces just weren’t a big concern in Medieval art. It became standard to depict personal expression during the Renaissance iirc and probably has something to do with humanism if I had to guess
Okay I found where I got it from
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/35do0x/why_do_people_in_medieval_art_look_bored_or/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
