In those days, only the aristocracy and wealthy mercantile families owned miniatures since formally trained portraitists charged a high fee per sitting that was cost prohibitive to most. Nonetheless, attraction to the art form remained, and the demand for portraiture by the middle class was met by a number of less talented artists who would roam the countryside trading their skills in exchange for room and board. Paints and vellum, however, were rarely affordable, so most of these travelers worked with simple objects, such as paper or wood recycled from construction projects and charcoal extracted from singed kindling, which limited the scope of the works to black outlines of subjects, usually sketched in profile to portray as many unique features as possible.
05 What does the author imply about traveling artists in paragraph 4?
According to legend, over 3,000 years ago a Greek shepherd tending his flock on Mount Parnassus discovered a continually burning flame rising from a fissure in a rock. Believing it to be of divine origin, the ancient Greeks constructed an elaborate temple, which would eventually house the renowned Oracle of Delphi, where a series of priestesses made prophecies supposedly based on visions inspired by observing the flame. Subsequent excavations of the site by archeologists revealed that the structure was in fact situated on a deposit of natural gas, which continually seeped through the fractured rock to the surface, thus providing the fuel necessary for the constant flame.
11 According to paragraph 1, the temple that housed the Oracle of Delphi