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請問cursory 在第一段的意思是「粗略的、隨性的」嗎？
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' Cityscape Painting

Evena 本Msory Survey of modern or contemporary art wi

lnds0ape makes up a substantial part of the artistie 語 S 計 讓
關 importance may be obvious, its origins are much less so 了
consensus about the exact date of birth of the first city  1 全 說 才
 agreememt as to aprecise date for the start of Gi開 painting 全約  FFresco,

anaerjal view of a coastal city that'datesifrom Trojan Rome in (8 first 品生 gf

the frst millenniumuis the earliest known cityscape painting. Of course, that is no

reason to assume thatitis the first of its genmre-

During the Middle Ages, representatioris Of clties can be found as backgrounds

inmanyilluminated manuscripts, but 個ey were never aoeerded more than
secondary roles in those compositions. The late thirteenth and early fourteenth

century brought a revival offreedom of expression in Westerm art as 站began

throwing off the Wi constralints of the Byzantine tradition. ltwas during this period
that Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted the fresco known as “City by牛e Sea , often cited

fs as the first true cityscape inthe history of Westerm art.
arked by Lorenzetti did not'eome intofull

The interest in cityscape painting sp
However, small cityscapes doappear as

flowerin ltaly until the late 15th century.                                 -

backgrounds in some works by the most famous painters 0f the intel      ng MG

centuries. At that time, some Venetian painters, most notably Vittore   arpaccio and
3 Gentile Bellini, created what can be considered the first “golden age”of cityscape

painting in Western Art, a short but remarkable            tothe scenic ita painting

that was soon to come-                                                      :
                                  curred in ltaly, many ofthe most importamt

In northern Eurobpe, much as OC          )         :
                    cities only ina supporting capacity for their

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painters of that era began depicttng   同      二 信實 語人sa stunning
resentation,

 primary subject. In one 6
representation ofariver city. Despite
the city is not accorded “leading role” status in

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2 The word “cursory in line 11s
選    closest in meaning to

(A) cautilous
V   (B) scholarly

(C) rigorous

(D) casual

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