Medieval manuscript art rendered Saladin as a purple-skinned grotesque

Evidence

In other cases, blue and purple were used to depict monstrosity, as in the iconic image from the Luttrell Psalter, where Richard the Lionheart fights Saladin, a purple-skinned, big-lipped, hook-nosed monster. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 106

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The Luttrell Psalter image is a famous, citable artifact the reader could reproduce — solid visual evidence for a thesis essay.
• SHARE: The specific detail that Saladin — often admired in crusade chronicles — was depicted as purple and hook-nosed in the Luttrell Psalter would delight any medievalist friend.

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• Saladin was painted as a purple-skinned hook-nosed monster in the Luttrell Psalter (similarity 0.94)
• Saladin was depicted as a purple-skinned, hook-nosed monster in medieval art. (similarity 0.94)