What figure popularized the taste for the austere works of ancient Greece?

a. William Hogarth
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Johann J. Winckelmann
d. Francois Boucher

Answer: c

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The vessel in the shape of an ostrich egg from the Royal Cemetery of Ur is particularly notable for its

a. use of gold, which was a material rarely used in the region. b. reference to ostriches, a bird thought to have been unknown in ancient Ur. c. fabrication by C. Leonard Wooley, the “discoverer” of the hoard. d. inclusion of materials indicative of trade from multiple nations.

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