Guy Shares Examples Of Medieval Painters’ Attempts To Paint Animals Without Having Seen Them, And It’s Hilarious (17 Pics)

Could this be the first documentation of angry birds?

This on is pretty good for an artist who has never seen one

How can he have never seen a snail? His name is Dutch or Flemish, i.e. rain.

It's......a green scaly dog...I think?

Someone gave this poor creature a glimpse into the year 2020.

"I can see the resemblance" Said no one ever

Why does it have male AND female genitalia?

"So...you´re telling me that there is this elephasomething animal that grows size of a house?" "Yes, my liege, we saw them many." "Nah, it can´t be. Johnson, draw it half a horse and look like a mix of a wolf, a boar and a trombone." "Like this, sir?" "Righte."

wait, it has a beak AND a mouth???

This is not a beaver, it's a weaselfish. Trust me, they do not make good pets.

also look at those mud boots they gave it. very fasionable

ah, the blue spotted tiger

Nice shoes, tornadophant

"And his balls, man... his balls were big!" - "And you say he was wearing a trenchcoat?" - "Yeah, totally."

It kind of looks like a Komodo dragon

wich is the lion and wich is the bear? hard to tell

And he can apparently walk on water. By the way, is it a brocolli tree in the background?