Look at this painting by Rogier van der Weyden. The composition of this
painting is intended to:

A. intensify the emotional effect.

B. bring Christ down to earth.

C. narrate an entire story from the Bible.

D. draw attention to Christian symbols.

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.