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What makes it look Egyptian?
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This woman sits before an offering table loaded with cone-shaped loaves of bread. The Egyptian artist's goal was to show the key figure and objects as clearly as possible, so he combines profile and frontal views.

 

This contemporary drawing uses perspective to create the illusion of looking at an actual space from one particular viewpoint.

What is different in the two versions? What is the same?
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