The Critter Cave

My side blog for all my animals and all things nature... main: captainrexsbiggestho

[everythingfox]

“Breeze the baby horse is all grown up, but still sleeps with his teddy years later”

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[officialdamonalbarn]

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

[officialdamonalbarn]

THANK YOU

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

somebody please explain

[dykemisspiggy]

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

[caecilius-est-pater]

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

[crtter]

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

[midnightvoyager]

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

[queen-sammie]

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

[alsmenagerie]

Anyone else get reminded of minecraft with the skull

[filenames]

[intercal]

This is the American Gothic. If you’ve never been to the USA, this image sums it up pretty well.

[catbountry]

#I feel like I’ve driven past this before#been exactly here#but at the same time I’m not sure

Same, actually.

[glubtier]

I had to find out where this really was because looking at it, I felt like I knew exactly where it was. It turns out it’s in Breezewood, PA, and i have never been there, which only serves to highlight the OP’s point. 

[alsmenagerie]

Im from Australia, ive never left the country yet i feel like ive been there

[llovinghome]

[alimartsblog]

[thestoryandyou]

[filmeditors-deactivated20230605]

[alsmenagerie]

@something2regret

[alsmenagerie]

First post on my side blog, this is Albert everyone, hes a 16.2 giraffe ottb