As reflected in View of Père Lachaise Cemetery from the Entrance and the concept of the garden cemetery, nineteenth-century representations of life and death shifted from a focus on suffering and sorrow in the Middle Ages toward visions of
a) eternal life in a natural paradise.
b) the inevitable journey to Judgment Day.
c) the folly of human desire expressed through architecture.
d) salvation through city life.
Answer: a
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