You see, infant mortality was very high, because instead of practicing good hygiene, people practiced pickling babies, and so only the most ripped and strong kids made it to 5.
In that time the belief was that Jesus was perfect already when he was born, thus he was painted as an adult. This spread to other religious paintings containing children too, thus we have these creepy kids.
Those are some weird as fuck looking children.
They were brined.
They got better!
They weren’t children after all; they were adults and the pickling shrunk them
You would look weird too if you had been through what they had!
You see, infant mortality was very high, because instead of practicing good hygiene, people practiced pickling babies, and so only the most ripped and strong kids made it to 5.
I believe they’re called homunculus. I couldn’t find too much on them, but here’s an article. https://www.thecollector.com/baby-jesus-in-medieval-religious-iconography
In that time the belief was that Jesus was perfect already when he was born, thus he was painted as an adult. This spread to other religious paintings containing children too, thus we have these creepy kids.
One of them has a fucking bald spot. :D
I’m chuckling about the pickled children
Lol that one has back abs too!
Bro’s roid-routine is all over the place.
That is what they looked like in the olden days.