Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South are similar in all these ways EXCEPT:
A. they share a common theme of the sacred.
B. their compositional structure is similar.
C. they both include symbolic hand gestures.
D. they share the same iconography.
E. they were made in the same century.
D
Iconography is the meaning of symbols and signs used to convey ideas and beliefs important
to different cultures.
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