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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