Medieval art memes

People Are Cracking Up At These 50 Medieval Memes Made By A History Professor

People Are Cracking Up At These 50 Medieval Memes Made By A History Professor

Art memes

St. Jerome removing a thorn from the lion's paw.

People Are Cracking Up At These 50 Medieval Memes Made By A History Professor

Museums and art galleries can become an overwhelming experience for the casual visitor. Luckily, some people untangle centuries-old ideas and dumb-down them into language us mortals can understand, too. Previously, we covered museum museum snapchats; now it's time for something else - an array of hilarious art memes. After diving into this list, you might just feel as a highbrow art critic yourself.

Yo, medieval scribes: no one's going to read the text you so painstakingly lettered if you continue to draw weird and dirty pictures in the margins. Well, I guess you're all dead, so we can't fix this now, can we?

Sassy saint

Medieval scribes took their animal illustrations very seriously.

People Are Cracking Up At These 50 Medieval Memes Made By A History Professor

The devil carries Jesus up to a mountain to tempt Him with an earthly kingdom (Luke 4-5–8 Matthew 4-8–10) Missal, France c.1470-75 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 425, fol. 48r. Satan is quite stylish with those feet, tail, & buttons. The Temptation of Christ Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become…

While memes might seem synonymous with modern life in general and the internet in particular, they are just one of the ways we try to encapsulate a feeling or mood in something that's easy to share. But truth be told, our ancestors were not that different from us in many ways.