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Renaissance Scene in Chiaroscuro

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The new era: not the eras tour but... Caravaggio- Renaissance “Mythological Renaissance Scene in Chiaroscuro ” Leonardo da Vinci explored the chiaroscuro in the very works like (The virgin of the rocks and mona Lisa) using soft transitions and the night sleep sweep between light and shadow- the modelling of three dimensional forms Caravaggio took off further with tenebrism, drastically and quite dramatically isolating figures in the darkness of the nocturne punctuated by sharp but exhilarating light scopes- profoundly the calling of saint Matthew Rembrandt and Vermeer refined and refined the approach using warm but focused light to sculpt faces and emotional presence in their Baroque era portraits  David with the head of Goliath, Caravaggio's most powerful and haunting Baroque masterpieces (painted around the 1609-1610)  a personal but emotionally unsettling version, the widely accepted that the decapitated head of Goliath is a self portrait of Caravaggio, this version of...