“ “our sculptors say that if Daidalos were born today and created such works as those that made him famous, he would be laughed at.” Danto calls this claim, that archaic forms of art are self-evidently made ridiculous in comparison to more realistic ones “a wonderful piece of perceptual wisdom.” I’ll reserve my judgment regarding that line’s truth for the Greeks, but for us it’s indefensibly stupid. Do we laugh at Pollaiuolo, or Egyptian hieroglyphics?“

‘…we’re born today’ is the key part. An artist born today who made Egyptian hieroglyphics or painted like the pollaiuolo would be ridiculous.