【单选题】
TheEtruscan painter used pleasantly simple mineral colors that be laid on a fresh layer of plaster applied to the rock wall. With large, uninterrupted surfaces to work on, he was prompted to make complex pictorial compositions.But his purpose is always clear.Enclosed forever in the tomb, his pictures were to evoke for the deceased the joys of life. The dead man’s occupation, which he intended to resume in the afterlife, is often depicteD、Scenes of banquets and feasts are frequent. These guaranteed eternal satisfaction and pleasure to the departed; in the happy phrase of tileBelgian scholar FranzCumont, "the ghost of a diner could be nourished by the appearance of fooD、" The frescoes also perpetuated the pleasant hours of sports, games and dances. WhenEtruria came on difficult times, the funerary frescoes took on a more somber tone: the features of the departed, which were formerly peaceful, were expressions of anxiety and even of anguish.
Etruscan sculptors preferred to work in clay or bronze rather than in stone. They were particularly fond of the bas-relief, in which they produced delightfully animated figures framed in elegant arabesques. Their forte, however, was the portrait. The art of portraiture had deep funerary significance: it furnished a faithful image of the deceased to aid his survival in the other life. Frequently, in the seventh century
B、C、, the portrait of the deceased formed the lid of the crematory urn. Portraiture reached its peak in the last centuries ofEtruscan civilization, when the characteristicEtruscan flair for detail, for the unusual, found its fullest expression.
B、Etruscans embalmed the bodies of the dead
C．Etruscans covered the burial vaults with portraits
D．Etruscan civilization in its later years became more rigorous
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
根据短文，我们可以认为伊特拉斯坎人的文明在后来变得更加严峻。第二段最后一句说，由于伊特鲁里亚的时世艰难，丧葬用的壁画上面呈现出忧郁的气氛：以往死者的特征是安宁，但此时已变成了忧虑和痛苦的表情。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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