Why did everyone forget how to draw around the time Christianity came around?

Why did everyone forget how to draw around the time Christianity came around?

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Regression of art

The church forbid any art other than a strictly proscribed style with strictly proscribed religious subject matter.

Medieval art thread?

Wrong, at least in the West.

In the West literacy, and book production, fell out of practice as the former Empire transitioned into the more modern Western European kingdoms.

Decorative designs became more incidental and skilled artists were replaced by monks who copied from older works.


Attached is a copy, c.a. 5th Century, of an Ancient Roman manuscript of the Works of Terrance. Not how the portrait is fairly verisimilar and accurate to actual Roman Dress, and the figures are still fairly classical, though more ill-wrought.

And here is a Carolingian, c.a. 9th century, copy of this, or another intermediate, copy. Note how the art is a rough caricature, and very styled.

The art of illumination was lost, and monks had to do with copying in their meantime, as their job was not drawing, but being pious.

Eventually Illumination reverted back into the hands of craftsmen, not monks, and they developed their own styles, which were copied quite uniformly, though not without idiosyncrasy, until the Renaissance brought back the idea of life drawing.

Here is a page from Villard of Honnecourt's "Sketch Book" showing some models which may have been used in Illumination studios to teach students how to draw properly.

Here's a page from the Morgan Bible that employ designs similar to those found in Honnecourt's book.

Full bodied figures of Honnecourt for better comparison

Because "ancient" art was made during the alleged Renaissance.

A better question would be why does Veeky Forums keep asking questions and then ignore the only serious answer every single time.

This nigger.

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Apparently, "ancient" Romans had pineapples and mangoes.

They had pinecones and plum fruits.

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>serving "pinecones" along with edible fruits
Come on lad.

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Also, they are golden colored with leaves not brown with spikes like a pinecone.

So did someone try to do carbon dating on those to prove if it's a forgery or not?

This seems controversial, but still interesting.
theepochtimes.com/n3/293933-reconsidering-history-the-discovery-of-america-thousands-of-years-ago/
rogueclassicism.com/2013/09/21/did-the-ancient-greeks-discover-america/

>first it was Vikangz
>now it's Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians and basically everyone in the ancient world

How deep does the rabbit hole go?

>what is a garnish

Unsurprisingly many people, hacks, have talked about China being the first to discover the New World from the West.

I guess they were bummed out that all of the candidates were White people