Sad medieval cat paintings1/1/2024 I suspect that what you’re looking at is the face of the artist! In mediaeval times the world was more human-centric than it is today which is saying quite a lot because the world is still heavily human-centric to the detriment of the planet and nature. Another hybridised cat/human I would say. It was painted by a European artist in mediaeval times. This painting shows the domestic cat with a hybrid human/cat face. LiTi, of the Song Dynasty from the National Palace Museum in Taiwan This is “Hibiscus and Rocks Detail” from the Song Dynasty, 12th century, and it is at the National Palace Museum Taiwan.Īlthough the image quality is poor, this is one of the better depictions of the domestic cat by Chinese artists during the mediaeval era. The pictures below show the domestic cat as portrayed by Chinese and European mediaeval artists. I wonder if they had the brutal cat meat trade in medieval China? I think not. Perhaps this is in line with the centuries of persecution of the domestic cat during that era in Europe due to heavy superstitions about witchcraft.īy contrast, in China, there was a much more gentle and humane relationship with the domestic cat at that time although there was plenty of superstition. The mediaeval artists made the domestic cat look like an ogre with a hybrid human/cat face. The paintings of cats from 1,500 years ago in China are generally very gentle and charming. Perhaps they are a little less anthropomorphized than European versions. I’ll agree that they are more attractive. Katharine M Rogers in her book “Cat” writes that “Chinese artists in the Tang and Song periods created far more realistic and attractive portrayals of cats than did their mediaeval contemporaries in Europe”. They painted them with human faces or to be more accurate hybrid human/cat faces. But by today’s standards they are quite poor for one reason: they humanised them. And I’m sure that they felt that they were painting an accurate representation of the domestic cat before them. This is a topic that interests me: how artists of the mediaeval era depicted domestic cats in their paintings. Essay on Cat Behavior Toggle Child Menu.Wild Cats of Asia (for kids) Toggle Child Menu.
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