In front of certain tympanums, statues, columns, capitals or stained glass windows of Romanesque or Gothic churches, we are sometimes unable to identify the characters represented. However, there are simple means for recognizing them:
Andrea Mantegna (1456-59) Paneau. 255 X 140 cm. Museum of the Louvre, Paris.
Francisco de Zurbaran (1636) Oil on fabric. 113 X 66 cm. Museum of the Louvre, Paris.
Hans Memling (1485-90) Oil on panel. 87,8 X 59,2 cm. Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle.
Raphaël Sanzio (1514) Oil on fabric, transferred from a panel. 220 X 136 cm. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.
' Gregory I, the Great' Carlo Saraceni (about 1610) Oil on fabric. 102 X 73 cm. Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Rome.
10: Which of the following assertions is false? AHe introduced the Gregorian calendar, used today almost everywhere throughout the world, and which replaced the Julien calendar BHe wrote the final liturgy of the mass and the Gregorian rite CIt founded a school of music, Schola Cantorum where one trains clerks who will propagate the song of the liturgy known since under the name of "Gregorian chant"
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