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| Technique of applying paint to wet plaster. It is a durable method of painting murals because a chemical reaction bonds the pigment into the wall surface. |
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| What was Abbot Suger's primary motivation for radically altering the design of the Church of St. Denis? |
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| To bring more light into the church. |
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| Old Saint Peter's is an example of.. |
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| During the Republican period of Rome, portraits were.. |
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| Realistic and individualized. |
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| The Parthenon was constructed so that almost all the temple's lines are slightly curved, because.. |
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| They counteract the optical illusion of structural distortions. |
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| Dedicated to Athena goddess of wisdom and war. Built on the Acropolis. |
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| The emotional expressiveness and dramatic rendering of the Nike of Samothrace is a characteristic of which period of Greek art? |
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