How and why does the Dome of the Rock incorporate aspects of earlier artistic traditions?
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1. The Dome of the Rock claimed a site holy to Jews and Christians and crowned it with an Islamic monument that incorporates aspects of these earlier artistic traditions in order to emphasize that Islam has superseded the prophesies of Judaism and Christianity.
2. Its centralized octagonal plan derives from Early Christian and Byzantine martyria.
3. The central space is covered by a dome and surrounded by two concentric aisles, or ambulators, that permit the visitor to circumambulate the rock.
4. It has mosaic friezes with inscriptions from the Qur'an and others that depicts thick, symmetrical vine scrolls and trees that can be interpreted as the gardens of Paradise.
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a. disenfranchised masses.? b. ?disaffected Christians. c. ?corrupt officials. d. ?sophisticated urbanites.
Discuss the growing desire in the Renaissance to reflect nature as accurately as possible and how this became a major motivation for the development of perspective in sculpture, painting, and drawing.
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What does the stripped-down white space of the church of St. Bavo, as depicted by Pieter Saenredam in Interior of Choir of St. Bavo's Church at Haarlem, meant to reflect?
a) the purity and propriety of the Dutch Reformed Church and its congregation b) the frugality of the congregation c) the fact that the building was not yet completed d) the diminished number of congregants of the church
________, a Russian composer who studied law as a young man, became a cosmopolitan composer more influenced by the West than by his native land.
A. Peter Tchaikovsky B. Modest Mussorgsky C. Alexander Borodin D. Mikhail Glinka