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by licebmi_at 3733 days ago
This. Perhaps the lack of perspective is because symbolism; it's a common misconception that 3-D perspective was discovered during renaissance. In fact, the artists deliberately disregarded perspective due cultural canon and religious symbolism and probably had a set of rules of how to do it [1].

[1] https://pavlopoulos.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/reverse-perspec...