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Chiaroscuro is often applied to works created during the Mannerism and Baroque eras. So artist such as Rembrandt Carravagio ( Although carravigism is a mix of chiaroscuro and tenebrism) Hugo van der Goes Tintoretto Adam Elsheimer and more.
Chiaroscuro is the use of significant contrast between light and dark in various methods of art, and in order to imply a third dimension. The method is believed to have been first used in drawings, then paintings, then woodcuts, and later in photography and movies.
Chiaroscuro is the use of value contrasts to replicate dimension. Artists make the lightest parts of a subject white, and the darkest shadows black. It is an illusion technique which helps 2-dimensional art portray 3-dimensional subjects.
Chiaroscuro
Renaissance art differs from Medieval art in many ways. Renaissance art shows greater use of perspective and foreshortening. Many artists also began to play with the effects of light, using such techniques as sfumato and chiaroscuro. Renaissance art also shows a greater interest in accurate portrayal of the human body and the natural world.