Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called
a) tenebrism.
b) cross-hatching.
c) hatching.
d) simultaneous contrast.
Answer: a
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a. Indian rhythms. b. scales or modes. c. complex chord changes. d. the melody to "I Got Rhythm."
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Which of the following refers to the purely Japanese writing system in which Murasaki Shikibu composed her poems?
a. waka b. hiragana c. zuihitsu d. haiku
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Greek sculptors carved the human form in a graceful pose known as
A. the three-point stance. B. contrapposto. C. sfumato. D. the flat-footed pose.
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The ________ dynasty created a unified central state over which the shogun assumed political and economic control
A. Qing B. Tokugawa C. Ming D. Yulan
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