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On the Australian Sentinel tank, the one with the ‘part’ on it, why did it even have that? I know it was for cooling the machine gun, but was it intentionally made to resemble that?

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Why were medieval art and artists seemingly so very “bad”? We have truely beautiful paintings from Ancient Greece, and beautiful paintings from the renaissance, but why is at least 90% of medieval artwork so… bad?

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On the Australian Sentinel tank, the one with the ‘part’ on it, why did it even have that? I know it was for cooling the machine gun, but was it intentionally made to resemble that?	5
Why were medieval art and artists seemingly so very “bad”? We have truely beautiful paintings from Ancient Greece, and beautiful paintings from the renaissance, but why is at least 90% of medieval artwork so… bad?	1