Consider Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and details the circumstances of their individual creations. Also examine the similarities and differences
What will be an ideal response?
Both are stories of a group of people deciding to entertain each other with individual stories over a period of time. Boccaccio's tales were in response to the plague while The Canterbury Tales served as a social critique.
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In the conventions of Orientalism, the headdress, peacock fan, and jeweled necklace pictured with the nude in Ingres's Grande Odalisque are markers of
a) her role as concubine. b) her high social status. c) her connection to royalty. d) her Middle Eastern identity.
How does Hieronymus Bosch's painting Garden of Earthly Delights defy the traditions of the Renaissance?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is true?
a. Homer wrote The Laws. b. Plato wrote the Iliad. c. Socrates wrote Dialogues. d. Demosthenes wrote speeches. e. Euripides wrote comedies.
Identified as the pharaoh of the Exodus, ________demanded a more powerful, formal style of Egyptian sculpture, as evidenced by the colossal statues erected at the pharaoh's temple
a. King Mycerinus b. Akhenaton c. Tutankhamen d. Ramses II e. none of the above