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Question
Donatellos sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
a) ancient Egyptian sculpture.
b) a lifting of the ban against autopsies for anatomical study.
c) Berninis David.
d) Greek and Roman sculpture.
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