Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

Ever tried to paint a cat? It turns out that it’s not as easy as you might expect. It indeed wasn’t for these Medieval artists anyway! While they excelled at painting religious scenes, portraits of Royalty, and naked ladies, this particular type of pussy offered an altogether different challenge.

There are a couple of reasons why these funny cats look as they do in the Medieval art depictions. One of them is that the primary purpose of these paintings was to translate the religious scripts to the illiterate (bear in mind that there were relatively few people who could read – monks, priests, and the nobility), and the other, unnecessary details weren’t so scrupulously painted.

On the other hand, linear perspective, giving a painting depth, was not systemized until the Italian Renaissance. That’s why the given ugly cats look so flat and slightly misshapen.

While most of them have got the basic shape of a feline down to a reasonable tee in these cat illustrations, it is the face that seems to provide the biggest problem. Instead of the cute kitten features we all know and love, the artists instead appear to favor a grim, almost human-like look that makes these cat paintings look a bit, well, scary. I guess the drawings do prove, though, that we have been obsessed with sharing cat memes since way before the internet!

Scroll down to check out the list of Medieval funny cat memes compiled by Bored Panda below, and don’t forget to vote for your favorites!

#1 Yeah… Fish Is Not Gonna Work, You’ll Have To Try Harder

Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

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#2 Done With Life

Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

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#3 What A Cutie

Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

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#4 White Cat

Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

Someone Noticed How Ugly Medieval Cat Paintings Are, And It’s Too Funny (60 Pics)

#1 Yeah… Fish Is Not Gonna Work, You’ll Have To Try Harder

#2 Done With Life

#3 What A Cutie

#4 White Cat

#5 Melancholic Cat Plays The Lyre

#6 Cat With Eyebrows

#7 Hey Cat. Stop Licking Your Butt On The Book Of Maccabees Or You’ll Get An Arrow

#8 The True King

#9 This Must Be A Cat From The Hallucinogenic Meadows Of Scotland

#10 This Cat Is Starring Into Your Soul

#11 I Know I Don’t Want To Know What These Two Just Saw

#12 This Bathing Cat

#13 The Cat You Cannot Unsee

#14 I Want To Have Whatever That Cat Is Having

#15 Look At Those Lovely Eyes

#16 Casual Cat Life

#17 This Bishop Cat

#18 Medieval Cheshire Cat

#19 Is This A Cat, A Dog Or A Boar?

#20 The One And Only Love

#21 Cat Rider

#22 Defiant Cat Riding A Horse

#23 I Has Mowse

#24 Nativity Scene

#25 Snailcat

#26 Zombie Petting A Cat

#27 This Looks Like A Lizard Pretending To Be A Cat

#28 Catnip Trip

#29 Magpie Inspecting The Cat’s Butt

#30 Catsnail

#31 Medieval OMG Cat

#32 Wild Cats

#33 Because Why Shouldn’t A Cat Be Playing A Stringed Instrument?

#34 Cat Churning Butter

#35 Cats’ Habits

#36 Bipedal Cat Monsters Eating A Leech?

#37 That Kitten Is Not… Ok

#38 A Feline With The Blues

#39 I Can Has A Spindle?

#40 Cloaked And Flower-Tailed Feline

#41 Queen Cat And A Monkey Pope Tripping Balls?

#42 Monkey Hugging A Kitten – No Wonder The She Took It As Her Own

#43 Medieval Cat Or The Ouroboros? ‘Tis The Catouroboros

#44 Alien Cat

#45 White Cat

#46 Winged Cross-Eyed Kitteh

#47 Butt Licking Cat

#48 He Hates Meeces To Pieces

#49 Classic Cat And Mouse Relationship

#50 Hudy-Gurdy Cat

#51 Someone Please Take That Kitten Out Of It’s Misery

#52 Floral Border Cat

#53 The King Of The Cats… Or Maybe Demons That Went Through A Food Processor?

#54 Initial Cat

#55 Drumming Cat

#56 Marginal Kitten

#57 Devil And The Cat Worshippers Kissing The Cat’s Butt

#58 Kissing A Cat

#59 Mouse Holder

#60 Keyboard Cat