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| The creepy medieval painting from the British Museum Picture 1 |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
In the medieval time, the human life was very cheap, and the markings of the art were given by the "black death". This time was very scary because there was no justice in the life of normal people, and of course, there were no mental institutes in the land. And if some king or nobleman had the mental illness, that person could stay in power, and give convictions for the people. This painting has innovated the "not very good "joke that there was the X-ray doctor, who looked the persons thru the X-ray wall when they went to the army. And suddenly he saw three vampires or humanoids or whatever on that wall. The idea for that "joke" was given this picture. And also this picture has probably given ideas to John Carpenter make the film about sunglasses, what uncovers the humanoids. The name of that film is "They Live".
In that time the persons who had different opinions about the religion were persecuted and executed by the Inquisition. At that time were many disturbing paintings, what gives the very good image of the life in that time, where people were dying like flies. Above the text is the good portrait of three nice ladies, but in the next room is three very bad looking skeletons, and the picture is made of the warning. The thing why it was painted is always actual.
This painting gives warning, that even if some person, who will call somebody to the parties is nice, the other people in those parties might not be so nice at all. There was always risk to get the sexual illness in that time, and even if in that time the things like respectable and purity were in highest-ranked things, those things did not consist the men, and that might cause the situation, where somebody gets the infection. And the result was death because at that time were not medicine, what could fight against bacteria.
And that's why many infections were lethal at that time. The cities were grown in that time, and that caused the social problems like violence, alcoholism, prostitution, and wandering. The reason for the last mentioned thing was normally the very strong drinking at somebody's home, and that caused the situation when some people must move to the streets. This was the reason, that there might be bodies in some flats. That might be given warnings in this interesting picture.
And human life was cheap at that time. The streets of medieval cities were smelly, dirty, polluted and dangerous places. There were no police, who were interested in the people life. And in that time normal people were necessary cargo for the kings, and the expected lifetime was about 30 years. So at that time, there were no criminal police, and only thing, where will the murders investigated was the death of the noblemen. Normal people did not exist. The knights could impale person by the pike if this didn't step away fast enough. The knight couldn't get any kind of punishments even that kind of actions. And the priests burned people in pyres, by the reason, that they answered the little bit too slowly for those people answers.
Sources
Picture 1
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/10/threelivingthreedead.jpg
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