Most likely they had humour also in 1562.

Unrelated, but a friend of mine lives in a house from 1600 or so. The ceiling is painted with hundreds of funny animals, from normal cats, dogs, pigs, bears, through exotic lions, tigers, elephants, crocodiles, apes, and topped with some fantasy dragons and serpents. Many of them doing funny faces and gestures.

The first time I saw it, I had to walk around and just look for 30 minutes.

I would guess that the paintings may be later than the house, perhaps from the early 1700:s but it's hard to tell.

Decoration because decoration. You don't decorate your house because your house is ugly without decoration. No TV means we want things to look at, appreciate including flourishes and complexity in our print, masonry wood work.

The dragons had to be somewhere. St. George killed one.