Analyze how the symbols and style in Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece were appropriate for its original setting

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
• The Altarpiece was placed in an Abbey Hospital.
• Its location is relevant to the viewer connecting the suffering of Christ with the suffering of its patients.
• St. Anthony, the hospital's patron saint, was included in the work.
• The work itself underscores the transformation of spirit between the closed and opened doors of the work.

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The contemporary artist Graham Nickson has been directly influenced by __________

A. Leonardo B. Piero della Francesca C. Giorgione D. El Greco E. Sandro Botticelli

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During the Intertestamental Period, there was no _______ _______ from God.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Discuss the formal innovations of Song landscape painting. Support your response with details from a specific work.

What will be an ideal response?

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The chorale melody of "Awake, a Voice Calls to Us" appears in which sections of the finale of Bach's Cantata 140?

a) the ritornello sections b) the chorale sections c) the fugal sections d) the monophonic sections

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