Section 2, Question 6
It is highly significant that compared with fellow Renaissance artists Michelangelo and Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci was (i)______ the ancient world, which many in the Renaissance viewed as a model of heroic behavior in art. To be sure, Leonardo was not (ii)______ antiquity: a recently discovered drawing for a statue of Hercules sheds light on Leonardo's plan for a major work concerning that hero of ancient Greek mythology. But there was something in the Renaissance reverence for antiquity as a fixed value, as an ideal outside time, that (iii)______ Leonardo's fascination with the immediate, the mutable, and the elusive.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| (A) far less fascinated by | (D) indifferent to | (G) never quite accorded with |
| (B) not at all inspired by | (E) obsessed by | (H) provided the rationale for |
| (C) more slavishly devoted to | (F) uncritical towards | (I) served as the model for |