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The style of art from that period tends to show human figures at a much larger scale than their environment - I remember a picture showing a siege in which the
by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
The style of art from that period tends to show human figures at a much larger scale than their environment - I remember a picture showing a siege in which the attacking army could almost have stepped over the walls! I'm sure there are interesting reasons behind this, but it does have the unfortunate effect of making it very difficult to discern how big these dwellings actually were.
- reidjs 4y agoI have a pet theory that this relates to how on social media picture sharing apps, in general, low effort selfies tend to get more engagement than beautiful landscape photography. People like looking at other people, and people especially like looking at themselves