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Your search for 'caravaggio' returned 88 results.
Chiaroscuro
This is an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted. Artists who are famed for the use of chiar...
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Mercury piping to Argus
Johann Carl Loth
1655-60
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Tenebrism
Tenebrism is a term derived from the Italian 'tenebroso' which means darkened and obscuring. It is used to describe a certain type of painting in which significant details such as faces and hands are illuminated by highlights which are contrasted...
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Juno discovering Jupiter with Io
Pieter Lastman
1618
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.
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The Concert
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Judith in the Tent of Holofernes
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Kindness
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Saint Sebastian
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
The Le Nain Brothers
about 1640
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