Which device was invented in the sixteenth century as a means of capturing and fixing images from the natural world?
a) camera obscura
b) camera vérité
c) praxiscope
d) film noir
Answer: a
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With Dante's use of Virgil, how might the reader understand his attitude toward Classical poets and philosophers?
A. As models of human rationality. B. As ignorant pagans and idolaters. C. As the inhabitants of the lowest levels of Hell. D. As heavenly angels.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, opera _______________ reigned supreme
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentieth-century Westerners closer to
a. enlightenment. b. technological superiority. c. God. d. ignorance and death.
How does the composition of Titian's Pesaro Madonna differ from that of other High Renaissance works in central Italy?
A. Highlighted against a dark background B. Symmetrical arrangement of figures C. Figures placed on a steep diagonal D. Figure gesturing toward the viewer