Briefly discuss the various dangers faced by works of art as they age. Include a discussion of the conservation of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
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Various factors affect the degradation of an artwork, such as light, temperature, humidity, and pollutants. Conservation aims to slow the effects of time. Because of the experimental nature of da Vinci's Last Supper, the painting began to deteriorate soon after its completion, and conservators spent two decades restoring it to a more luminous, but fragmentary, image.
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__________ was a late nineteenth-century movement that arose in France. This
movement was the first to reject photographic realism in painting, instead trying to re-create the perception that an object produces upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment.
a. Cubism b. Impressionism c. Primitivism d. Expressionism e. Neoclassicism
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Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is one particularly high-profile case. Threats to grizzly bears may be defined in terms of habitat and population fragmentation and the biological measures needed to maintain or restore populations (e.g., Knight et al., 1999). However, they may also be understood as an interdisciplinary management problem, realizing that the conservation of grizzly bears and their ecosystem are only partly a technical problem and largely an outcome of complex human social dynamics—a policy process. Understanding this policy process and making it more effective is the key to achieving effective grizzly bear and ecosystem conservation. This paper first offers a brief overview of the policy process. Second, it examines three basic interdisciplinary problem solving elements or perspectives that can be applied to species and ecosystem conservation. a. This is a complex problem. b. Environmental science is an interdiscipline and is therefore sufficient to address this problem. c. This problem could draw on insights from ecology, sociology, psychology, as well as environmental science as there are human as well as animal behaviors that must be considered. d. This problem cannot be solved. e. “a” and “c” are correct.
Modern readers are often struck at the Byzantine distaste for __________ and their preference for elaboration on tradition
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Which part of their temples did the Etruscans decorate with sculpture, in contrast to Greek architectural plans?
A. porch B. pediment C. roof D. side walls