Giotto’s Arena Chapel frescoes include the first instance since antiquity of the depiction of

a. people from behind.
b. a nude female.
c. a figure posed with contrapposto.
d. flying angels.

Answer: a

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Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó borrowed from Soviet Montage cinema by:

A. creating drama out of collective action and historical movements. B. isolating heroic protagonists in the frame set against the backdrop of the sky. C. using temporal expansion to draw out the time an event takes to happen. D. suggesting concepts via the juxtaposition of two unlike images.

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