It’s curious to me that, in many of the artworks, the artists would dress their subjects in contemporary dress rather than clothing of the time of the event they are depicting. I’m NO art expert, lol, but I’ve noticed it with a lot of artists.
I think that being historically accurate was not the goal of these artists, making a visual impact was far more important. Easier to do when stories are made to seem like they come into your world than it is to transport you into theirs generally.
Still, the other day when collecting pictures showing Pharaoh's daughter and her aides finding baby Moses while they were bathing in the Nile, I had no compunctions about rejecting several where they were wearing billowing silk ballgowns. My rationale is that the Spirit's charge to me is not presenting art about the Bible, but rather the Bible illustrated--it is about the Word, not the art. Billowing silk ballgowns at water's edge would distract viewers from the story.