Which of the following would explain the artist's decision to depict an exemplar moral and political virtue in Yan Liben's The Thirteen Emperors?
A. The Daoist ideal of retreat from society to attain wisdom in nature
B. The system of laws and belief set forth by the Chinese first emperor
C. The ideal of good government as seen in Gandharan India
D. The Confucian ideal of learning from the past to create an ordered society
Answer: D
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A. post-and-lintel. B. arch and vault. C. load-bearing construction. D. the mending of stone fences. E. None of these answers are correct.
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