A major development of the Renaissance in Northern Europe was
A. the new oil paint medium, which made brilliance and transparency of color possible.
B. artists could construct the illusion of three-dimensional space.
C. humanism.
C. humanism.
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Bazin’s realist aesthetic was based on his belief that photography
A. produces images of reality automatically. B. must represent reality by re-presenting it in another medium. C. essentially a subjective recording or reality. D. was not as important as montage.
The New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the Hollywood melodramas of a filmmaker as a model of a socially critical yet emotionally engaging cinema. Identify this filmmaker.
A. Douglas Sirk B. F. W. Murnau C. Fritz Lang D. Billy Wilder
Describe the cultural contributions made by Islam to Western Europe.
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All of the following statements are true of Niccolo Machiavelli and his writing, The Prince, EXCPET which one?
A. Machiavell's The Prince called for the unification of Italy under a powerful and courageous leader, and laid out the guidelines for how a ruler might gain and maintain political power B. Because The Prince was an expose of real-life politics, the word "Machiavellian" soon became synonymous with the idea of political duplicity C. In The Prince, Machiavelli argued that a strong ruler should be trusting, kind, forgiving, and loved by his people D. Machiavelli is considered the most acute critic of the realities of greed, ignorance, and cruelty in Renaissance society