Italy's most powerful men.

　　5. Charles Wheeler kept the miniature on his bookshelf because________.

　　A. he thought it was of little value

　　B. he thought it would be safer there

　　C. he liked the picture very much

　　D. he wanted it to be seen by others

　　6. The miniature was probably taken from the Berlin's picture gallery by________.

　　A. a burglar

　　B. a German farmer

　　C. a Russian soldier

　　D. a worker at the gallery

　　7. In what way is the miniature considered to be priceless?

　　A. It survived the Second World War.

　　B. It depicts a powerful woman of the Renaissance.

　　C. It is a masterpiece by a famous artist in Germany.

　　D. It was painted more than 50 years ago.

　　8. From the passage we can learn________.

　　A. the painting was drawn by a woman of the Renaissance

　　B. Allori gave the journalist the painting as a wedding present

　　C. Charles Wheeler has kept the painting for over 50 years

　　D. Eleonora of Toledo was one of the most powerful men in Italy

　　C

　　The medieval (中世纪的) artists didn't know about perspective; they didn't want to make their people look like real individual people in a real individual scene.They wanted to show the truth, the eternal (永恒的) quality of their religious stories.So these artists didn't need to know about perspective.

　　In the European Renaissance period, artists wanted to show the importance of the individual person and his or her possessions and surroundings.A flat medieval style couldn't show this level of reality and the artists needed a new technique.It was the Italian artist Brunelleschi who discovered the technique of perspective drawing.At first the artists of the Renaissance only had a single­point perspective.Later they realized that they could have two­point perspective and still later multi­point perspective.

　　With two­point perspective they could turn an object (like a building) at an angle to the picture and draw two sides of it.The technique of perspective which seems so natural to us now is an invented technique, a part of the "grammar of painting". Like all bits of grammar there are exceptions about perspective.For example, only vertical and horizontal surfaces seem to meet on eye level.Sloping roof tops don't meet on eye level.

For 500 years, artists in Europe made use of perspective drawing in their