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How was the Edict of Milan in 313 important to the history of Western art?

It was the end of the Iconoclastic period.It announced a ban of figurative sculpture on all churches.It banned images of humans in all religious art.It declared Christianity as the legal religion of the Roman Empire.It was the beginning of the Renaissance.

By the year CE 500, most of the Western Roman Empire had been overrun by barbarian tribes from the north. Who immediately attempted to restore the lost empire?

JustinianConstantineOtto IICharlemagneTheodora

The tremendous dome of the Hagia Sophia is supported by

a wooden frame work.four lintels.brick walls.four pendentives.400 iron posts.

Sculpture on Gothic buildings, such as the portal statues on the Reims Cathedral, differ from Romanesque and early Christian art in that they

are much higher on the buildings.seem to depict "individuals."have lost their naturalism.are smaller, yet more awkward.are rounder and more "barrel" shaped.

An art form in which small pieces of tile, glass or stone (tesserae) are fitted together and embedded in cement on a surface such as walls or floors is called

tile.terrazo.mosaic.fresco secco.buon fresco.

The religious architecture of Islam is best illustrated by

kivas.stupas.mastabas.mosques.pyramids.

In Romanesque architecture, flat ceilings were replaced with

a new truss system.cantilevered slabs.pendentive arch ceilings.flying buttresses.vaulted ceilings.

The Romanesque period marked the return of something that had been all but forgotten since the time of Hellenistic Rome. What was it?

illuminated manuscriptssculpturenude statuarygood winepoetry

The great period of Gothic architecture began with the rebuilding of

the choir of the abbey church at St. Denis.The Crystal Palace.the west transept of San Vitale.Old St. Peter's in Rome.the monastery at Cluny.

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