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ok I think the answer is life of its creator
<span>B is the correct answer. Mosaics are made from small shapes, mostly squares, called tesserae, which are made from coloured stones, pebbles or glass. Smaller shapes mean more detail can be added. Mosaics started in Mesopotamia and became very popular during the Byzantine empire.</span>
If we are talking early early then it was because art wasn't a form of "art" it was a form of communication.
But a little later down the road, people did not understand the human body and could not paint one perfectly, and also painters loved to show perfection, as in, gold everywhere, or a kind a top a thousand bodies. Something like that. So yeah...
C. hunt for info, but you also might want to clear up the question?