Examine the interaction between the aesthetic values of East and West in the Mogul courts of India
What will be an ideal response?
The Mogul ruler Akbar urged his court artists to study Western art practices, as shown in the paintings and prints that the Portuguese brought beginning in the 1570s. They began by admiring genres such as the miniature and the portrait. Angels and cupids, Western inventions, began appearing in Mogul imagery.
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The underlying cultural issue critiqued by Whisper, the Waves, the Wind is
a) the social isolation of aging women. b) environmental damage to the world's oceans. c) women's fear of growing old. d) the media's obsession with youth.
The rate of vibration of sound waves is called
A. dynamics. B. frequency. C. color. D. timbre.
Which nineteenth-century writer has been called "the first, modern liberated woman"?
A. George Sand B. George Eliot C. Emily Dickinson D. Mrs. Gaskell
Petrarch perfected the literary form of
a. terza rima. b. satire. c. the Italian sonnet. d. the heroic couplet.