As a director, you wish for your latest production to be visually stunning. You work with your technical designers and plan to have several large set pieces for the show, extensive lighting, and many character entrances and exits. All of these elements will make the show much more visually appealing. Which type of theatre arrangement would likely be the most conducive with these factors in mind?

Which of the following statements accurately reflects how Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa departs from an earlier Renaissance portrait, Piero della Francesca’s Battista Sforza and Federigo da Montefeltro?

a) The psychological complexity of Leonardo’s portrait is aided by the sfumato technique, which Piero does not use. b) By including an imaginary Alpine landscape, Leonardo departs from the humanist impulse that characterizes Piero’s portrait. c) Leonardo paints an actual individual woman, whereas Piero, in keeping with earlier Renaissance convention, creates a version of the idealized Renaissance female face. d) Leonardo’s omission of the jewels and finery present in Piero’s subject attest to what was likely an interest in depicting commoners, a popular subject with Florentine patrons.

Nearly all Baroque music, except for solo lute and keyboard pieces, was accompanied by two or more instruments that performed the bass line and that were called the

A. thoroughbass. B. basso profundo. C. cantus firmus. D. continuo.