Portraits from the Republican period are usually _________
a. relief sculptures
b. frontal
c. idealized
d. veristic (lifelike)
Answer: d
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The Porta Augusta (Fig. 6-2) is architecturally significant for its use of ___________, which anticipates Roman building practices
A. a square frame B. roundels C. a barrel vault D. pilasters
A work of art that uses a tragic Roman tale to arouse feelings of patriotism, self-sacrifice, and civic virtues in its viewers is:
A. Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq's Company of the Civic Guard. B. The Ashes of Phokion. C. Las Meninas. D. The Progress of Love. E. The Oath of the Horatii.
Etruscans thought of their large-scale tombs as
a. pyramids. b. houses. c. urns. d. underground temples.
Which composition provoked one of the most violent reactions in the history of art?
A) Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen B) Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun C) Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring D) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9