It’ is illogical when you have a culture hellbent on creating their own very very fine artistic works yet the older works are even more advanced? Did they all of a sudden “forget how” to create the previous much finer works? They decided to go backwards in skills and pride of craftsmanship rather than advance?
Welcome to 2019
Maybe they found cheaper and quicker ways. If I look at a hammer my grandpa owned and one from home depot. I see the older hammer is much better made and will likly out last the new hammer. But then again nail guns.
“It’ is illogical when you have a culture hellbent on creating their own very very fine artistic works yet the older works are even more advanced?”
How many painters these days would you say are on par with Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Vermeer, or Rembrandt?
I guess aliens must have made all those old oil paintings, eh?
“Did they all of a sudden “forget how” to create the previous much finer works? They decided to go backwards in skills and pride of craftsmanship rather than advance?”
The world is doing that now.
Ever seen paintings from the Renaissance vs modern art?
actually that has happened a lot.
The romans had running water, and central heat, something not seen again for more than a millennial.
Cultures can easily go backwards. Read many years ago about a culture of Eskimos who over time lost the ability to make igloos and obviously died out.