An important visual device in An Allegory with Venus and Cupid is the use of sight lines to establish connections between key elements of the image. Identify examples of this and its effects
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Cupid and Venus gaze directly into each other's eyes, establishing the central relationship in the image.
2. The sight line between the woman seen in profile in the upper left corner and the man rotated toward her from the upper right corner (and reinforced along the line of his extended arm) links Truth to (Father) Time.
3. Folly's direct sight line to Cupid links the Baby as a younger version of Eros.
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What will be an ideal response?
Singing school masters were
A. highly educated musicians. B. musical amateurs who taught people to read music. C. located in a school where people came to study. D. almost always women.
What is modulation?
a. a fascination with the exotic b. a movement between and among tonal centers c. a type of piano mechanism d. the art of combining orchestral instruments
Kant called the two basic substances, "those that we receive through impressions, and those that our faculty of knowledge supplies from itself" __________ respectively
A. senses and matters B. sensations and perceptions C. phenomena and noumena D. feeling and knowing E. conscious and unconscious