Discuss the grid system of city design in Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica and compare it with the Tang capital Chang’an in China.
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Both cities were enormous for their time period. Both grids make reference to celestial elements: the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in Teotihuacan and the street alignment of the noon sun and North Star in Chan’an. Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun is an image of time. The organization of Chang’an dramatized the Tang commitment to social order and mirrored the order of the cosmos.
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The dramatic core of the narrative in Giotto's Lamentation exists in the lower left in the heads of the ____________ and ____________
What are the names?
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The set designs of Sebastiano Serlio are notable for their use of __________
A) live animals B) mechanical perspective C) expressive content D) color and ornamentation E) symbolism
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