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Why are children so ugly in old paintings?????


Anthony

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because at thta time they didnt know how to paint babies


 


babies have a really different face then adults but in these painting they always painted the babies faces as adult wich makes them abit scary


 


also at that time it was seen as pretty to be pale since that showed that you didnt have to be out in the sun working,a nd also it was seen as good to have abit more fat on your body since that showed that you could eat as much as you wanted


 


as you can see i find history pretty interesting


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If you're curious why:

 

Those are paintings from (if I remember correctly) middle ages and most if not all paintings were dedicated to Church at that time (hence all the Jesus and Mary paintings). Philosophers thought that Jesus was born perfect, which if we put simply, translated to already being an adult ever since he was born lmao. The only thing they did to get people to get the idea of it being baby Jesus was the small body... I guess... they have a term for it but I forgot orz.

 

I had a West Art History class and kinda remember about this being one of the middle ages paintings characteristics ~_~

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