following questions.

1. What's the main idea of the text?

2. How many styles are mentioned in the passage and what are they?

3. How is the passage organized?

B. Careful-reading Read the text again and fill in the blanks.

1. Art is by the customs and of a people.

2. This text will describe only the most important ones, starting from __ .

3. During the Middle Ages, the main aim of painters was to .

4.A picture at this time was full of , which created a feeling

of and for God.

5. During the Renaissance, gradually replaced those held in the Middle Ages.

6. One of the most important discoveries during this period was how to draw things .

7.________________, oil paints were also developed at this time.

8. , Europe changed , from a mostly agricultural society to a mostly industrial one.

9.___________________, the impressionists' paintings were controversial.