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| Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing or print. |
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| In painting, the effect of haze in an image. Resembling dusk. Gives smokey effect |
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| a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church |
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| was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. |
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| denotes the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648 as a response to the Protestant Reformation. |
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| The use of strong chiarascuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting |
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| one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral |
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| a method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtlevariations in color and clarity of representation |
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| any line running back into represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane |
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| in a perspective system, the point on the horizon line at which orthogonals meet. |
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