Some more common animals also wrongly executed, all within Scheibler’sches Wappenbuch that was also posted to. Surely the artists could not be so inaccurate on so many common animals, given they were so common and easily in view everyday, yet they were nonetheless.
A wolf in heraldry.
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00007174,00022.html?prozent=1
A real wolf.
A rooster in heraldry.
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00007174,00028.html?prozent=1
A real rooster.
http://cdejarnatt.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/rooster.jpg
A dog in heraldry.
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00007174,00036.html?prozent=1
A real dog.
http://celiasue.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/contactluna.jpg
A cat in heraldry.
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00007174,00049.html?prozent=1
A real cat.
http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/cats-dogs/cat-beautiful-white.jpg
I’m not sure that I see the point of this argument, but ...
A European artist of the 19th century would hardly need to have seen an ass in person. If he/she had studied art…Christian art is full of fine representations of asses: the Nativity, the Flight into Egypt, Palm Sunday, etc. This case is just bizarrely bad.
I am merely trying to defend the artist. That given the time he drew these, not everything we take for granted was available, and he should not be mocked for it. Not merely internet, but reproductions of art work and books. Compilations of artwork of the Renaissance would not include photos of actual paintings, but engravings copying those paintings. Or copies of copies. Or further removed form the actual. The artist should not be mocked for limitations of his day.
Has no one ever seen a Pommeranian short-eared ass?
It’s a naive drawing. Sheesh.
George Lucki;65955 wrote:
Has no one ever seen a Pommeranian short-eared ass?
Bravo, the LOL of LOLs.
George Lucki;65955 wrote:
Has no one ever seen a Pommeranian short-eared ass?
Since Pommerania is now part of the Republic of Poland, your comment could be taken as a Polish joke.
Or a German joke .... Vorpommern is a part of Eastern Germany….:wink: