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Why did ancient Egyptians adhere to a particular style of images?
Art in ancient Egypt was chiefly religious in nature and created for temples or royal tombs. Ancient Egyptians equated king with a god or demi-god.
Artistic imagination was confined by rules of proportion as they were to represent ideas of power and eternity. For instance, images of objects on the wall of a king’s tomb had to be properly proportioned; else, they would not later become the actual items needed by the king in what, he believed, would be his afterlife. This system of strict proportion ensured that all images were basically of the same quality and consistency even if, the artists had been trained in different workshops.
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