What prompted Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil to come to believe in the importance of commissioning religious works from avant-garde artists?
a) They visited French chapels designed by twentieth-century artists Henri Matisse and Le Corbusier.
b) They visited nineteenth-century decorated chapels in New Mexico.
c) They visited medieval Japanese shrines.
d) They read St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul.
Answer: a
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