A medieval painter who could draw a convincingly receding floor still made distant saints as large as near ones. What does that suggest about the omission of perspective?

C. That optical accuracy was subordinated to another priority

A single viewpoint locates the image in one person's instant, and a scene held to be eternally true has no such instant, the flat gold ground is a claim, not a shortfall. Judging it by fifteenth-century standards imports a purpose the painters had rejected.