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To critics (i)_____to the style of fifteenth-century narrative paintings by Italian artists from Tuscany, the Venetian examples of narrative paintings with religious subjects that Patricia Fortini Brown analyzes in a recent book will come as a great surprise. While the Tuscan paintings present large-scale figures, clear narratives, and (ii)_____settings, the Venetians filled their pictures with (iii)_____and elaborate building, in addition to a wealth of carefully observed anecdotal detail often irrelevant to the paintings' principal subjects—the religious stories they narrate.

Blank(i)Blank(ii)Blank(iii)
A accustomed D embellished G dozens of small figures
B critical E simple H scattered vivid figures
C tailored F elegant I spontaneous exaggerate figures

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