Information and IdeasVery hardEvidence for a claim about a fresco's date
Information and Ideas practice question
An art historian argues that a fresco in a chapel was painted after 1492, later than the date of 1480 recorded in the chapel's accounts.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The fresco depicts a fruit that was unknown in Europe until ships returned from the Americas after 1492.Correct
- B. The chapel's accounts contain several arithmetic errors.
- C. The fresco is in the same style as works from the 1480s.
- D. The chapel was rebuilt in the 1600s.
Answer: A. The fresco depicts a fruit that was unknown in Europe until ships returned from the Americas after 1492.
A subject that could not have been painted before 1492.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The chapel's accounts contain several arithmetic errors.
- Errors in sums do not date the fresco.
- C. The fresco is in the same style as works from the 1480s.
- Style supports the earlier date, if anything.
- D. The chapel was rebuilt in the 1600s.
- A later rebuilding says nothing about 1480 versus 1492.
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