Discuss the ways in which the upper classes influenced production and style in the arts of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Draw examples both from Europe and from regions beyond the West.

What is different about the meter of this selection from all of the other examples you have listened to so far in this chapter?

What will be an ideal response?

All of the following were motivations for the creation of Roman ancestor portraits EXCEPT

A) ?extolling the virtues of the family's ancestors. B) ?separating the old patrician families from the plebeian middle and lower classes. C) ?displaying pride in one's genealogy. D) ?legitimizing the status of self-made "new men" in the Senate.