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Text 1 Analysis of the pigment in the fresco shows a blue that was not manufactured in Europe until the 1550s. Text 2 The fresco's donor, shown kneeling in one corner, wears a style of collar that portraits of the period date to the 1550s and 1560s.

Based on the texts, the authors would most likely agree that ____

  1. A. the fresco was painted no earlier than the 1550s.Correct
  2. B. the fresco was painted in the 1400s.
  3. C. the donor was a painter.
  4. D. the blue pigment was imported from Asia.

Answer: A. the fresco was painted no earlier than the 1550s.

Pigment unavailable before the 1550s; a collar from the 1550s–60s: both put the fresco at or after the 1550s.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the fresco was painted in the 1400s.
Both texts point later than the 1400s.
C. the donor was a painter.
The donor is a subject, not the painter.
D. the blue pigment was imported from Asia.
Text 1 says the blue was not manufactured in Europe before the 1550s, not that this fresco's blue came from Asia.

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