Why are humans depicted in paintings from ancient civilizations like different than now? Weren’t there artists who could paint realistic paintings?

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Weren’t there artists at that time who could draw humans for what they actually looked like. For instance, look at the paintings of kings from the 17th Century or before.

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I’ve read a bunch of these comments, and think most of them are accurate. The one that I think is missing though is the quality of the materials at hand. I don’t know that even the greatest artists of today could do a very realistic painting with what was basically finger paints made from mud.

And if they can, I’ll bet it’ll take them a long time. Just going by what I’ve seen elsewhere on reddit, artists will do amazing work with just a ballpoint pen, but put in 200 hours. Not something you can really afford to do on a cave wall.

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