What event helped spark the Neoclassical style?
A. The American Civil War
B. The invention of photography
C. The excavations of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum
D. The Catholic Counter-Reformation
Answer: C
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A. The floating life is rendered through the nautical themes evident in the print. B. It mirrors the spiritual and physical union of deities such as Krishna and Radha. C. Taking its cue ultimately from the Buddhist notion of the transience of life, it celebrates a scene of lovemaking. D. It has been considered by critics to covertly render female genitalia in the elaborate background patterning.
Louis and Auguste Lumière
A. used the Black Maria studio to capture and analyze animals' movements using glass plates of film. B. developed a peep-show machine for exhibiting bawdy short films. C. held one of the earliest public presentations of films projected on a screen in Paris in 1895. D. were assistants to Thomas A. Edison and invented the Kinetoscope.