Most commentators on Baroque

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   Paintings that belong to a single historical period typically share many of the

   Since our job here is to prove that you cannot call Caravaggio a Baroque artist, using Mather's definition, we need to know at least one of these things about Caravaggio's paintings: - they don't display opulence - they don't have heroic sweep - they don't have extravagance This answer doesn't tell us anything about Caravaggio's paintings.

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2. B

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   A painter who makes use of the interplay of light and shadow need not for that reason be

   We need to know at least one of these things about Caravaggio's paintings: - they don't display opulence - they don't have heroic sweep - they don't have extravagance His paintings do "make use of the interplay of light and shadow", so this answer can tell us that, "Caravaggio need not be considered a nonrealistic painter". Beyond being a very weak idea (he doesn't need to be considered nonrealistic, but he still could be), this has nothing to do with establishing that he doesn't fit Mather's definition of Baroque.

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3. C

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   Realism was not widely used by painters prior to the

   We need to know at least one of these things about Caravaggio's paintings: - they don't display opulence - they don't have heroic sweep - they don't have extravagance This answer doesn't tell us anything about Caravaggio's paintings.

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4. D

   Trap14% picked this

   A realistic painting usually does not depict the world as opulent,

   Too Weak Out of Scope: depict the world We need to know at least one of these things about Caravaggio's paintings: - they don't display opulence - they don't have heroic sweep - they don't have extravagance His paintings are realistic, and this answer is saying "most realistic paintings don't depict the world as opulent, heroic, or extravagant". Does that prove that Caravaggio's paintings don't depict the world that way? No. So in that sense this answer is too weak to definitively tell us anything about Caravaggio's paintings. But this is also twisting wording around. We don't care whether the painting depicts the world as opulent, heroic, or extravagant. Per Mather's definition, we care whether the painting itself displays opulence, heroic sweep, or extravagance.

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5. E

   Correct79% picked this

   Opulence, heroic sweep, and extravagance are not present in

   Why this is right

   We need to know at least one of these things about Caravaggio's paintings: - they don't display opulence - they don't have heroic sweep - they don't have extravagance This tells us all three! Since Caravaggio's paintings don't have any of these qualities, they would not qualify as Baroque according to Mather's definition. Thus, either most commentators are wrong to call his paintings Baroque, or Mather's definition of Baroque is wrong.

   Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   79%