It is often said that the Church was the great patron of the arts of Western Christendom. Defend this statement by describing some of the landmarks (literary, visual, and aural) indebted to church patronage.

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Photorealism refers to:

A. a movement in photography that explores various levels of representation. B. a movement in sculpture that uses actual objects. C. a movement in art that rejects the camera as a viable art tool. D. a movement in painting that explores the way a camera "sees." E. a movement that involves documentation in film.

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Which source, written at a Benedictine Abbey in Germany during the 890s, contains the first documented appearance of polyphonic music?

a. Winchester Troper b. Codex Calixtinus c. Micrologus d. Musica enchiriadis (Music Handbook)

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Margaret Bourke-White's Louisville Flood Victims is an iconic image of

urban squalor at the turn of the century. the Depression in the United States. postwar rural America. the effects of climate change.

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