Which best defines an icon?
a. a frontal image in a church
b. an image on a wood panel
c. an image of Christ
d. any religious image
e. a purely devotional image
e
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What will be an ideal response?
Costume and set designers demonstrating their renderings and explaining visual concepts can
be best described as
A. intensives. B. fittings. C. show and tell. D. first company meeting
What is one factor that distinguishes Archaic Greek sculpture from contemporary Egyptian sculpture?
a) Many Greek male figures were nude. b) Greek sculptures were sculpted in stone. c) Greeks sculptures embodied qualities of strength. d) Greek sculptures were in a frontal position.
Why do we not know the names of any of the playwrights during the medieval period?
A. The writing was done for the glory of God and not for personal recognition. B. The Church forbade names to appear on the texts. C. The King forbade their names from appearing on the texts. D. The printing press was not yet invented and none of the scripts survived.