Why medieval pictures look almost the same among the whole Europe?

Why medieval pictures look almost the same among the whole Europe?
Did people know how to draw only in this particular style?

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I always figured it was because the individual people in the artwork were not supposed to be the focus, but rather the art as a whole was supposed to be the focus. Like the event or what was being depicted in the artwork.

yes, you learned art canons

It was the anime of its time.

illuminated manuscripts are really gorgeous OP, you should try reading about them

fewer artists and less of an understanding of perspective and anatomy, maybe?

most medieval triptychs and dedicated paintings are much more beautiful than simple book illustrations though.

Oh. So it's SUPPOSED to be shit.

People were too busy dirt farming and suddenly swording each other because the king said so to learn lighting techniques and perspective

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Adding to this illuminations were often really small so not much you can work with.

It's a style, medieval artists knew how to draw but they preferred to stick to conventional styles and seldom innovated.

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Did you make this picture?

people see a certain style and copy it because its the only one they know. Its the same with asian art

This thread reeks of american ignorance

These "artists" were all monks, and they were just a few. They were learning from their masters who also learnt from his master and so on. They were painting like their master was teaching them to which also had to be very strict method wide and follow a pattern approved by the Church.

Why did it take so long for people to be able to draw a realistic person? like why can't you just trace what you see

Are you completely unaware of pre-medieval art?

Do you think they call the renaissance rebirth because they got all their ideas from nothing?

It was a canon of depiction that sought to represent symbolically classes, characters, social roles and traditional imagery rather than actual likeness of people. It's just that it fits another time : autres temps, autres mœurs.

But people in the Middle Ages knew how to draw, don't doubt that, just look at the plans the established to build the castles and cathedrals, thay had a very actual and accurate idea of suitable proportions for edifices and statues.

Year 1360

XIIIth century

Year 1275

They didn't just "couldn't draw hurr", they were only following the canon style of the time.

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