What happened to this baby and this one? And why does this baby look like a commercial real estate agent who’s named Dale? You know, it’s really all about the location. Why did medieval babies look like ugly middle aged men? They weren’t just bad at drawing. The babies looked like that for a reason. Artists in churches in Italy had an ugly baby mandate. Most of the babies were pictures of Jesus and Mary. See, these little babies were actually homunculi. Latin for little man. Theologians wanted to represent the adult Jesus in the baby Jesus. Perfect and unchanged. That’s why you get babies who look like they’re selling timeshares. When the Renaissance happened over the next few centuries it broadened and secularized art. As the Renaissance spread Baby Jesus got babier too and beautiful babies replaced babies that look like they need a prostate exam.