During the Romanesque period, what largely replaced mosaics on the walls of churches outside of Rome?

A) relief carvings
B) painted murals
C) marble inlay
D) bare expanses of stone


B) painted murals

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The presentation of the main figures in Simone Martini's Saint Ansanus altarpiece is most likely guided by which influence?

A. Religious drama B. Byzantine formality C. Chivalric etiquette D. Apprentice training

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Poème électronique is the soundtrack to a film by Iannis Xenakis, and there are close correspondences between the images and the music

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A classic kind of total art, ________, was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927–2006). Kaprow, who coined the name for this conceptual genre, called it "a performance that occurs in a given time and space."

A. the Happening B. the Be-in C. performance art D. total art

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Why did many nationalist composers appreciate folk music of isolated villages?

A. They needed to expose the rest of their people to the folk music of the rural areas for political reasons. B. The people of those villages were "untarnished," because they had never been anywhere else. C. The king would prefer it. D. Folk music existed nowhere else.

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