According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries because:

A. the sitter was a wealthy woman.
B. he was a famous artist.
C. the portrait was almost miraculously lifelike.
D. all of these were the case.
E. None of these answers are correct.

C
New painting methods developed by da Vinci created the lifelike presentation of a real woman.

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A) ?Witwatersrand and the University of London B) ?the Venetian Academy and the University of Birmingham C) ?University of Bologna, the University of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge D) ?the Brandenburg Academy, the Universitas at Rome, and the University of Paris

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Popular music in the United States was not affected by classical music until the 1960s.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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