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What prompted Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil to come to believe in the importance of commissioning religious works from avant-garde artists?
 
  a) They visited French chapels designed by twentieth-century artists Henri Matisse and Le Corbusier.
  b) They visited nineteenth-century decorated chapels in New Mexico.
  c) They visited medieval Japanese shrines.
  d) They read St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul.

Question 2

The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, is
 
  a) both a nondenominational sanctuary and a work of art.
  b) a chapel in a pilgrimage church.
  c) a chapel in a Reformed Church.
  d) a santero.



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