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"The British Museum‚ The only museum that has nothing British"

I saw this today and it was excellent!!

What a great job you did with this. Would like to see more of your opinions on this information. or similar.

Marginalia were the medieval "Spy Vs. Spy". Bored monks getting silly.

Another little fact that the "enlightened" narrator left out was that these "backward and narrow minded" authors and artists were medieval Catholic MONKS!

The stereotypes at the beginning of the video, are more painful than nails across a chalkboard...🙄

I assume these drawings were drawn by the author(s), so they must've been educated men, who were probably monks. It's funny that these often dirty drawings were drawn by monks! 😂 I wonder why they would put dirty drawings in the margins of religious texts

What if the drawings were literal and the world was completely different back then?

Wow, you are taking a crap on Picasso. You are awful.

At 5:40 ...I have an answer for this drawing...too much mead!!!!!

At 5:24 ...Is she harvesting...uh...well...sausages???

At 5:17 ...I don't even want to know what is going on there...

At 0:26 ...Snail man???

At 0:12 ...WTF is that???

Right off the bat the description of the medieval ages was wrong and very misunderstood. This is crap.

It's almost as if you gave a prompt to chat gpt. Your "sources" are false. Think for yourself 🙄

I enjoyed this video. This painting makes me think of the Robert Altman film *3 Women.*

Love It!🎉

Isnt this art deco narratior?

People were weird and quirky back then too and they expressed it. Today we have…furries conventions.

As for rabbit in knight i feel like depecting a colony that bread fast. A colony in the old era where people just have many kids. As in that era contraception not invented yet so if the colony have many childrens perhaps the people at that time would describe it with rabbit. They easily produces offspring. As for dog in knight, it would depict loyal person. Lion would be brave.

Battle a snail..... Hmm.... More like depicting the battle that snaillike. Slow paced battle? But what if it fights a lion? Or a dragon? Was it really a lion or a dragon?

When I was in animation school at Sheridan, there was a class I did pretty poorly in, but would love to take again cuz in retrospect I know they were trying to get me to learn to think...but I was too obstinate to see that...(it's where I discovered James Burke and "Connections") Anyway, there was this one video they showed which was trying to demonstrate the power of context. They showed this Goya painting "The Third of May 1808" In the video, they show you the image, and you're a kid, and you're just kinda sitting there.."Yeah OK, old painting"....THEN they show you a short clip of these burlesque girls doing the can-can or something, then switch back to the painting...and you're like..."OK..where is THIS going?".....you're just perhaps bemused, or indifferent. THEN they show a film clip of people in Africa being shot by a firing squad, then they show the painting once more...and now?...That painting hit us like a sledge-hammer to the guts.

There's something SO charming about this art. It's old with a tinge of creepy and it feels like something out of a fairytale. Amazing video!

3:06 The thing depicted here is an actual historical event. Charles VI of France and his friends dressed up as wild men at masked ball in 1393. Someone brought a torch too close to the men fully clothed in flammable fur and they all caught on fire. Charles VI was saved, as Duchess of Berry covered him in some clothes, extinguishing fire. Hovewer, despite staying alive, the mental health of monarch was damaged. Later in life he developed either bipolar disorder of schizophrenia. Since he was not fit for rule, that led Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (two groups tried to establish their influence over the insane king), which then led to the Lancastrian war - a part of hundred-years war, English invasion of France.

I've always wondered about the ridged adherence to the aesthetic. Why did so many artists in western Europe show humans with rounded arms, strangely elongated hands, and splayed feet.

This was fascinating. Especially the walk through realism as it morphs into abstraction.

Honestly... I think they were making the best of smudges and accidentally lines by drawing whatever worked. The writing took hours, so why not Crack a bad joke to save the page and 20hrs? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

No. He's the best.

The Middle Ages are NOT the same as the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages run from the collapse of Rome around 450 until the year 800 when Charlemagne became the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Middle Ages run from 800 until the beginning of the Renaissance which, depending upon the country, can be anywhere from 1350 to 1500

We are just as weird, maybe more so. One day, thousands of years from now, archeologists will dig us up and wonder at a people who stuffed plastic parts in their bodies and mutilated themselves...yeah, we're weird af.

I think it was like their Memes and Emojis

So how did some, a frieze panel, a metope, a detached head, come to belong to the Louvre in France and why do Greek politicians not call THAT theft? How is it that in 2019 Mitsotakis could happily ask Macron for a temporary loan of the Louvre's metope, with a guaranteed promise to return it to Paris, but in 2023 he "cannot possibly" negotiate such a loan with the British Museum because, he tells the British nation, the Elgin Marbles are "STOLEN!"? There's no good answer to that.

great channel!! 👏👏

You deserve a lot more views. This was so well done and explained, thank you.

I never thought much of that painting, but you did a wonderful job describing it - and your voice is truly beautiful.

Wow. Great explanation. I just started learning the History of Art at Khan Academy and saw this painting. At first glance, I couldn't understand a thing but you explained it very well. I also noticed that you have not uploaded a single video in the last year. If money was your object when starting this channel, I can understand why you stopped sharing videos but If money is not the problem, I would like to watch new videos of yours :)

If you could not read, you could at least look like you could read... and enjoy the pictures. Just like a child that cannot read... you enjoy the pictures. Also try to draw a Rhino if you never seen one...

Thank you

British lack the minimum amount of dignity required

Who made those works of art? The Greeks. Were they sold by those who created the? No. Were they given to the Ottomans by the Greeks to sell? No. So how did these cultural sculptures come to belong to the British Museum? That is called theft. Not only should they be returned, but there should also be compensation for their appropriation and use for profit. The Greeks should start confiscating British properties, ships, etc. for compensation for the use of their appropriated cultural items.

The British have so many stolen relics from all over the world

It's really simple give them back.

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Modern Greeks have no claim over the Elgin Marbles. Modern Greeks are almost entirely descended from all the people who invaded Greece over the course of 2000 years, especially the Romans and Turks. Modern Greeks simply live in the same area that the ancient Greeks lived, that's all. The Elgin marbles don't "belong" to them at all. And I don't think Stonehenge really belongs to the modern English people, or the Pyramids belong to the modern Egyptians ether. It's like moving into an old house and finding a painting the previous owner left behind. It doesn't really belong to you, but you'll likely claim it as yours.

Return to Greece for a better cultural understanding and context.

Nothing strange about it at all. Just a different viewpoint and method of rendering life.

Why is medieval art so wonderful?

Literally fantastic. Immediate new sub.