B. Giotto is the man who started European painting.

　　C. Giotto is the most important painter in Europe since antiquity.

　　D. Giotto is the name of a most famous European painting.

　　3. From the third paragraph we can learn________.

　　A. Giotto thought painting was a "mechanical" art

　　B. Giotto didn't get great respect in Florence

　　C. Giotto owned European banking houses

　　D. Giotto's art affected the whole Italy

　　4. The main theme of the passage probably is________.

　　A. the Renaissance in Italy

　　B. Giotto, a great artist

　　C. Florence school

　　D. fine arts of Middle Ages

　　B

　　It is a tiny portrait of one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance.And for more than 50 years the old BBC journalist Charles Wheeler kept the picture of Eleonora of Toledo on his bookshelf.

　　But yesterday Wheeler returned the painting to Berlin's Gemäldegalerie after discovering that it was a priceless original looted (掠夺) from the museum during the Second World War, not a copy as he had thought.

　　Wheeler, 83, acquired the 16th­century portrait by the Florentine artist Alessandro Allori from a German farmer who dropped in to the BBC's West Berlin office."It was 1952.At the time people could move freely between East and West，"he said yesterday."We were doing a programme called Letters Without Signature, where people living in the eastern zone could write a letter.The farmer reached into his pocket, took out a brown envelope and said it was a wedding present for me." The farmer claimed he had got it from a Russian soldier in exchange for two sacks of potatoes to make vodka.Over the next 50­plus years Wheeler, one of the BBC's most distinguished foreign journalists, took the miniature (小画像) with him."I was burgled four times over the years，"he said."People were always taking my TV and radio.But they ignored the painting."

　　It was only last year while making a BBC radio series on missing art that Wheeler realised the painting could have been stolen.After contacting the London­based Commission for Looted Art in Europe the work was swiftly identified as a minor masterpiece and returned yesterday to Berlin's picture gallery, where it was last seen in 1939.

Yesterday Anne Webber, co­chair of the commission, hailed (赞扬) the work as one of the "earliest diplomatic portraits of a woman". "It's a charming painting，" she said.The miniature depicts (描绘) Eleonora of Toledo，whose husband Cosimo de Medici was one of Renaissance