Shadows are soft and pertinax color doesn’t help.

I have 2700k spots at my work desk's soldering station, I honestly couldn't tell you why but I prefer it. Maybe because I've always had warm lighting when soldering. Makes me wanna get neutral or cold spots and try that for a change.

For me the bigger issue is light intensity, I swear the old lighting setup at that work desk was as bright as a grave light... dunno how anyone could use that.

I would think that accurate color representation would've generally required the bright lights and broad spectrum coverage of sunlight, so I imagine people just...painted during the day, by daylight.

That's why art studios had only windows letting the north light enter. Roughly same uniform cool light all day.

Until the invention of the paint tube (and rail) so you could paint outside.