The text uses Hendrick Goltzius's Dutch Visitors to Rome Looking at the Farnese Hercules to make the point that the meaning of a work of art is __________.

A. determined by the viewer
B. fixed and unchanging
C. separate from its context
D. less important than its style


Answer: A

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