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Unlike the article, your comment, does not provide evidence beyond "sniff test". The article brings up paintings of statues, which is an interesting data point.

If somebody tells you there's a dragon outside, you'd need to be stupid to ask for evidence.

Meh. Nyeah? "Trolling" is a reasonable hypothesis but not a reasonable conclusion.

Not amateurs, artists. Look at any modern art and you'll understand that looking like crap is kind of the point nowadays

Look at the statues themselves, its obvious that these people valued realism.