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| Why is the Jesse tree a common stained-glass motif? |
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| It establishes Mary's royal lineage from King David |
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| According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, what exploration was a driving force in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries? |
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| The meaning of being human |
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| What relic did Louis IX purchase on Crusade in Constantinople to display at Sainte-Chapelle? |
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| Why did the Florentine families donate chapels to the mendicant churches? |
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| To guarantee the families' salvation |
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| Where was the first university founded? |
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| Why were Siena's guilds able to rise to such levels of power? |
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| Siena was an important manufacturing city |
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| As reported in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, whose 1804 Imperial Decree on Burials created the idea of a cemetery as a kind of landscape garden? |
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| Emperor Napoleon of France |
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| Why by the end of the fourteenth century did Florence become an important banking city? |
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| The Pope conferred Siena's papal banking privileges on Florence |
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| Why do pictures of the Virgin Mary abound in Siena? |
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| Siena called itself "ancient city of the virgin" |
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| Why in the Arena Chapel frescoes does Giotto deliberately abandon the Byzantine balance and symmetry? |
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| To make the scenes look more realistic |
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