How Was the Art of the Later Middle Ages Important

question 32

Multiple Choice

How was the art of the Later Middle Ages important as a valuable source to understanding the attitude towards death?

• A)It attempts to explain how men and women of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries thought about death.
• B)It illustrates the good and bad death motif of the time.
• C)A lingering death allowed the dying person a time to atone for his\her sins.
• D)Judgment scenes depicted saints or the Virgin Mary contending for the soul of the dying.
• E)All of the above.

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