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) 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.
Guillaume de Machaut's "Messe de Nostre Dame" is
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.