編號第 47 題至第 50 題，請依據下文文意，從四個選項中選出最合適者。
At the beginning of the 16th century, laborers working near the Colosseum penetrated a buried building whose
vaults were adorned with frescoes and stuccos. This was the Domus Aurea or Golden House, a huge palace built by the
Emperor Nero over the remains of a building that had burned down. The Domus Aurea had burned in its turn and had
been covered over by the baths of Trajan.
The Domus Aurea galleries, which were thought to have been underground from the very beginning, were called
“grottoes,” and their mural paintings of ornamental designs and mythological figures were called “grotesques.” The
discovery of the grotesques was to have a profound influence on the artists of the Renaissance, who began to
redecorate palaces with imitations of them. Raphael (1483-1520), one of the greatest, also drew inspiration from them
when decorating the Logge in the Vatican palace. Even more important was the fact that the frescoes provided the first
color illustrations of antiquity; the mural paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum were not discovered until two
centuries later.
【題組】49 What was the subject of the paintings in the galleries of the Golden House?
(A)Ancient caves (B)Historical figures (C)Imaginary creatures (D)Natural landscapes
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