High-relief sculpture is different from low-relief sculpture in that:
A. high-relief is a freestanding work that can be viewed from any angle.
B. high-relief is installed high upon the wall of a building.
C. high-relief projects only slightly from the background.
D. elements of high-relief may be in the round, unattached to the background.
E. All these answers are correct.
D
Usually the foreground elements are modeled in the round, detaching themselves from the background altogether.
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a. a plainchant setting of the central Christian liturgical service. b. the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single composer. c. a song celebrating the wedding feast at Cana in the New Testament. d. an example of non-liturgical texts being included in a Christian liturgical service.
Stravinsky (age 19) and Prokofiev (age 20) were performers and composers for a society called Evenings of Contemporary Music
A) true B) false
This composer, who became the absolute monarch over French music, was a native-born Italian
A) Jean-Baptiste Lully B) Jean-Philippe Rameau C) Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre D) François Couperin
In most contemporary sculpture, there is one pervasive characteristic:
A. Sculpture identifies volume in space. B. The tactile nature of the pieces recalls traditional sculpture. C. Sculpture remains true to materials. D. Sculpture now flies, floats, breathes.