Practice question · True or false
Egyptian artists could draw naturalistically and mostly chose not to.
Hints
- What survives from the Amarna period?
- Skill was never the constraint.
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True
Why
True. The Amarna period's naturalism, and informal sketches on ostraca throughout Egyptian history, show the ability was there. The canonical style persisted because its purpose was to present an eternal, complete and legible version of a person, a convention held deliberately for three millennia, not a limitation.
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