What techniques were used by artists of the Renaissance to reflect the new attitude toward humanism?

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Essay responses should include these points:
• Religious subjects were natural and lifelike.
• There was a drastic decline in the use of hieratic scale/social perspective.
• Foreshortening suggests the form was sharply receding by the time of the Renaissance.
• Scientific and linear perspective translated the subject into a three-dimensional form.
• Atmospheric perspective provided a feeling of naturalism.

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The landscape architect at Versailles was

a. Le Brun. b. Le Nôtre. c. Le Vau. d. Hardouin-Mansart. e. Colbert.

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Agbekor means

A. hunt monkeys. B. clear life. C. “Let us drum!” D. Agbe, god of the kora.

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The rhythm of "Behold, Spring" falls into consistent units of how many beats?

a. two b. three c. four d. five

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