How did portraiture change under the reign of Augustus?
A. It moved in the direction of busts instead of full-body sculptures.
B. It tended to reject major public or historical figures as subjects.
C. It embraced the realism of the Hellenistic era.
D. It reverted to the idealism of Hellenic Greece.
D
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A. Woody Guthrie B. a blackface minstrel song, “Old Dan Tucker” C. Stephen Foster D. George Frederick Root
Which of the following statement best describes Quam pulchra es?
a) a cantilena motet b) a motet employing three voices of equal weight and similar rhythms c) a motet employing layered rhythms d) an isorhythmic motet
A character can be revealed through all the following EXCEPT:
a. descriptions in stage directions, prefaces, or other explanatory material that are not part of the dialogue. b. what the character says. c. what others in the play say about the character. d. what the character thinks of other characters, but does not say.
The representations of Theodora and Justinian in San Vitale might have been inspired by the original processions in
a. Sant’Apollinare Nuovo. b. St. Paul’s Outside the Walls. c. the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista. d. the Church of Santa Costanza.