“You can draw a horse from the front, right?”

Back in the 1300s, sharing hilarious memes was hard. The story was dictated to an artist by some lord or another, then they had to grind and mix their own pigments using beetles and ram’s bladder and stuff, then they transcribed it all as an illuminated manuscript that took years to finish only to be read by a small population of scholars. Take this silly “egg horse” for example. The left image portrays a LEGO creation by Toltomeja and its inspiration to the right is an artist’s depiction of the front view of a -um- horse from L’estoire de Merlin in 1316. The artist likely lacked any real references to horses so you can forgive the silly rendition. Incidentally, this is precisely what sunk my would-be van mural painting career; a total lack of half-naked warrior maidens hanging around my studio and an end result that looked a bit like this egg horse.

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