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Because painting frescoes requires an unusually sophisticated hand, particularly in the representation of human form, the development of drawing skill was (i)_____to artistic training in Tuscany, and by 1500 the public there tended to distinguish artists on the basis of how well they could draw human figures. In Venice, a city virtually without frescoes, this kind of skill was acquired and (ii)_____much later. Gentile Bellini, for example, although regarded as one of the supreme painters of the day, was (iii)_____at drawing.

Blank(i)Blank(ii)Blank(iii)
A substantial D reprimanded G feeble
B circumstantial E appreciated H familiar
C peripheral F transcribed I virtuoso

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