Das Pommersche Wappenbuch

 
Alexander Liptak
 
Avatar
 
 
Alexander Liptak
Total Posts:  846
Joined  06-06-2008
 
 
 
18 January 2009 22:39
 

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.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/primary/grey-wolf-snow.jpg

 

 

 

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

 
Dohrman Byers
 
Avatar
 
 
Dohrman Byers
Total Posts:  760
Joined  02-08-2007
 
 
 
18 January 2009 23:04
 

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.

 
Alexander Liptak
 
Avatar
 
 
Alexander Liptak
Total Posts:  846
Joined  06-06-2008
 
 
 
18 January 2009 23:27
 

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.

 
George Lucki
 
Avatar
 
 
George Lucki
Total Posts:  644
Joined  21-11-2004
 
 
 
19 January 2009 00:08
 

Has no one ever seen a Pommeranian short-eared ass?

It’s a naive drawing. Sheesh.

 
Michael Y. Medvedev
 
Avatar
 
 
Michael Y. Medvedev
Total Posts:  844
Joined  18-01-2008
 
 
 
19 January 2009 02:46
 

George Lucki;65955 wrote:

Has no one ever seen a Pommeranian short-eared ass?

Bravo, the LOL of LOLs.

 
David Pritchard
 
Avatar
 
 
David Pritchard
Total Posts:  2058
Joined  26-01-2007
 
 
 
19 January 2009 17:03
 

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.

 
Jochen
 
Avatar
 
 
Jochen
Total Posts:  232
Joined  04-05-2005
 
 
 
19 January 2009 17:06
 

Or a German joke .... Vorpommern is a part of Eastern Germany….:wink: