Every now and then people on the cyberspace , bless them , believe they have foundevidence for sentence travelin an sometime painting . It happenssurprisingly often , and always with a wide-eyed explanation that does n’t require fourth dimension travel being real , and fourth dimension traveller themselves being absolute posers who insist on sitting for portrayal in their sometime - timey holiday terminus .
In a newfangled and fun twist to the musical style , people seem to believedinosaurslived alongside human race 500 years ago ( yes , like inThe Flintstones ) because of a painting by " Peter·Bruce Gale " in 1562 . In one typical station , Instagram userhistoryunrealwrote : " [ It ’s ] a painting by Peter·Bruce Gale in 1562 … 300 geezerhood before we supposedly knew anything about dinosaurs . "
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If dinosaurs were really there, he probably would have made it the focus.Image credit: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Public Domain)
So , despite no other evidence record up , such as citizenry writing down " is n’t it weird how we ride around onBrachiosauruslike a big lizardy horse ? " , is this grounds thatThe Flintsoneswas in fact a documentary ? No .
First off , " Peter·Bruce Gale " is not only not the artist of the house painting , there ’s no reference to him outside of this specific conspiracy theory . The artist of this painting – The Suicide of Saul – is Flemish Renaissance creative person Pieter Bruegel the senior . It depicts events described in the Bible – the felo-de-se of King Saul watch over his defeat by the Philistines on Mount Gilboa .
It is indeed paint in 1562 , and shows some weird little fop riding around in the backdrop . But they are n’t dinosaurs . As pointed out bymany post , it is more probable a event of " Pieter has never seen a camel " than time go dinosaurs , or a back - up of humans having subsist alongside them all along . Camels are indeedmentionedin reference to King Saul in the Bible , and it is probable he attempt to let in them in the background .
Just like Lion in European medieval painting being excellently big , draft of camel have have from the same deficiency of a sitting example ( as well asstylistic choicesby creative person who had seen the puppet ) .
camel were describe in a variety of agency by those who had n’t seen them . These , likecoatis in setback , just befall to look likeBrachiosaurus .
