Wonderful! I’d love to see that too. Maybe I’ll be able to track it down online. Then again, polydactly IS a thing!
There appears to be an extra foot in this painting; The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Thank you. I am a huge Bruegel fan so I ought to have remembered this one! I remember reading about the extra foot decades ago.
Never explained: Why Egyptians had one leg longer than the other
I assume there must be a number of paintings like this: The 1821 Derby at Epsom - Wikipedia by Géricault.
Of course, at the time Géricault had no way of knowing that horses don’t run like that - easy mistake to make.
I also have a nagging memory of a quite famous painting which includes a hunting dog with hooves - a less easy mistake to make - but either my google-fu is failing me or I’ve simply imagined it.
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ETA - while I remember, @CalMeacham - that was great.
All of this talk of rainbows brings the moon to mind. When it is depicted in animation or comics (I dunno much about actual canvas paintings), it’s usually illuminated in some crazy way because the artist doesn’t know to think about where the sun must be at night relative to the moon.
Wasn’t there at least one statue of George Washington in a toga?
And the box of Mr. Bubble in David’s Death of Marat.
So I’ve seen a lot of biblical scenes featuring soldiers in medieval art where soldiers are dressed like medieval European soldiers, not ancient middle eastern ones. Of course there a good cultural reasons they are drawn that way, but it still weird.
Unlike with Irish chieftains, we Americans prefer our heads of state keep their nipples to themselves.
Tapestry.
" … and famously includes a dog with horse’s hooves instead of paws."
Here’s a more elementary plot hole: Jesus, et al. are always depicted as lillywhite Europeans.
David’s foreskin.
Thank you for contributing to the thread!
Thank you for contributing to this thread!
Ah, yes! The recasting of characters from the gospels as white European puzzled me even as a child when I was still indoctrinated.
Thank you for finding the hoofed dog! That’s tremendously helpful of you!
Does this count? A Peruvian Last Supper with Jesus eating a guinea pig.
In Tintoretto’s Gather of the Manna, the soldier behind Moses (lower right) appears to be carrying a rifle:
Ah. Thank you. I’m fine with being wrong about the medium - just so long as I wasn’t hallucinating the image.
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This painting by Ippolita Caffi of an eclipse in Venice in 1842 is inaccurate, but cool-looking.
