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True or false quiz for you. Best score gets POINTS.?
Figurative illustrations showing elaborate festivals of dancing and music dominate Islamic book decoration T or F
Before 1000AD miniature paintings appeared in Persian books and became an important part of book illumination T or F
Early Islamic calligraphers made their vowel marks ornate and used rosettes to separate verses, thus leading to Islamic ornamentation T or F
Gothic tendency toward abstraction and stylized imagery was reversed in late medieval manuscripts T or F
“Figurative illustrations showing elaborate festivals of dancing and music dominate Islamic book decoration T or F”
http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=105133
I say FALSE because, if this site is any indicator, it would mean that it did NOT dominate although it was included.
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“Before 1000AD miniature paintings appeared in Persian books and became an important part of book illumination T or F”
FALSE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_miniature
“Miniature painting became a significant Persian form in the 13th century, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th
and 16th centuries.”
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“Early Islamic calligraphers made their vowel marks ornate and used rosettes to separate verses, thus leading to Islamic ornamentation T or F”
I say TRUE. Whether rosettes or specifically vowels were ornately drawn is left to the general terminology here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy#Calligrams
“In the teachings of calligraphy, figurative imagery is used to help visualize the shape of letters to trace…”
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“Gothic tendency toward abstraction and stylized imagery was reversed in late medieval manuscripts T or F”
I say TRUE.
“Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture”
http://books.google.com/books?id=M7SO0Vhi9SIC&pg=RA3-PA205&lpg=RA3-PA205&dq=gothic+literature+reversed+medieval&source=web&ots=vKXmHU6mMt&sig=Gvu8JKT0iG3VFTceVRQTpJsrSWA&hl=en&ei=B1-MSbvmKpGUsAP9y6iBCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PRA3-PA142,M1
Pg. 205
“Here it has been rebuilt as a shoddy “modern gothic”"
“But the place of the Gothic seems to be reversed. In the narrative’s reflection on Jude’s ignorance, the Gothic is allied with medievalism, with the stragled vitality of an older age…”
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