Onfim-pressionist
If you want evidence that we haven't changed much in the last 800 years, look to Onfim's[1] drawings. A clearer version of the image above is replicated below.
As a (debatably seven-year-old) Russian boy living in Novgorod around 1220-1260 CE, he drew himself on horseback, slaying an enemy.[2] Preserved in clay soil after being drawn on birch bark, his seventeen known works feature him practising the alphabet, copying psalms, and doodling.
You can see replicas of all of his drawings here. Here's one of him looking up to his dad:
Presumably his teacher. ↩︎
