I am pretty sure the answer is <span>B.) Egyptain paintings show all figures in the correct scale. </span> <span><span>Artists' endeavored to preserve everything of the present time as clearly and permanently as possible. Completeness took precedence over prettiness.
</span></span><span><em><u>Ancient Egyptian artists used vertical and horizontal reference lines in order to maintain the correct proportions in their work.</u></em> Political and religious, as well as artistic order, was also maintained in Egyptian art. In order to clearly define the social hierarchy of a situation, figures were drawn to sizes based not on their distance from the painter's point of view but on relative importance. For instance, the Pharaoh would be drawn as the largest figure in a painting no matter where he was situated, and a greater God would be drawn larger than a lesser god.</span>
