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The Sistine Chapel ceiling illustrates three sets of images from the New Testament.

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Which of the following complete this sentence?
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Leon Battista Alberti's humanist philosophy included

the incorporation of ancient ideas and artistic forms into Christian culture.
an emphasis on interesting, asymmetrical compositions.
the use of geometry to instruct painters on the correct way to compose an image.
a discussion of one-point perspective which Raphael later used.
a focus on humans rather than on the animal kingdom.


St. Peter's Cathedral

was built on the site of an earlier church, which was destroyed.
was conceived an executed by a single architect.
is the seat of the Pope.
included Renaissance and Baroque elements.


The Protestant Reformation didn't change the Papal approach to building and art patronage.

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