loki-feelsmith:acquaintedwithrask:boobsdontworkthatway:SUBMISSION: bunnyinafezI’m guessing that boob
loki-feelsmith:acquaintedwithrask:boobsdontworkthatway:SUBMISSION: bunnyinafezI’m guessing that boobs didn’t work like that in Ancient Egyptbut idkMaybe they gave helium breast enlargementsEh, I’d give the ancient Egyptians a break. They had engineering and astronomy down pat, but bless their souls if they didn’t understand perspective, let alone anatomy.-SatyaFINALLY, A CHANCE TO USE MY ART HISTORY CLASSES *EYES SPARKLE*Egyptians actually knew anatomy very well, their style came about because they wanted to represent the human form in the most straightforward way visually possible. They wanted to show each part of human anatomy in a way that it could be visually understood immediately. For example, they always draw faces to the side because then you can see and understand that the nose sticks out— something you cannot really ‘get’ when the face is drawn from the front without a lot of shading. This is why the shoulders are from the front, but legs and, in this case, breasts, are to the side.The reason they did that, by the way, was because they believed that otherwise the spirit of the person depicted would be left without that body part, or not remember that they had that body part. Pretty unfortunate when the afterlife was supposed to be like an entirely new life.What’s really interesting is that this rigid representation was only used for people who mattered. If you look at how they drew slaves, you will see much more fluidity of the form, and they look much more natural.AWWW YISS HAVE SOME ARCHAEOLOGY <3 -- source link