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.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Renaissance artists understood the physical universe as an expression of the divine and thus worth copying in the greatest detail.
- Scientific, or linear perspective allowed artists to translate three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional surface, thereby satisfying the age's increasing taste for naturalistic representations of the physical world.
- Painting became an intellectual pursuit, dedicated to replicating nature as accurately as possible through one-point perspective.
- The use of techniques to master perspective reflected the pursuit of humanism.
- The goal to create the best of nature was based on the rediscovery of Classical proportions in the ancient writings of Vitruvius.
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text is usually in prose rather than poetic meter and the musical setting mirrors the natural rhythms of everyday speech.
a. ritornello b. aria c. libretto d. recitative e. cantata
During the Baroque period, the audience had the option of simply listening to s suite or dancing during the performance
A) true B) false
New Guinea and the neighboring islands have more than 700 __________
A. languages B. lizards C. roads D. animals
How many symphonies did Mahler complete?
a. 10 b. 9 c. 4 d. 21