Giovanni Baglione.Sacred and Profane Love (1602-1603), showing dramatic compositional chiaroscuro. Chiaroscuro (English: / k i ˌ ɑːr ə ˈ s k (j) ʊər oʊ / kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, -⁠ SKURE-, Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; lit. 'light-dark'), in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used Leonardo da Vinci was the most prominent practitioner of sfumato, based on his research in optics and human vision, and his experimentation with the camera obscura. He introduced it and implemented it in many of his works, including the Virgin of the Rocks and in his famous painting of the Mona Lisa. He described sfumato as "without lines or Leonardo da Vinci(Italian: "Leonardo from Vinci") (born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence [Italy]—died May 2, 1519, Cloux [now Clos-Lucé], France) Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci. Self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, chalk drawing, 1490/1515-16; in the Palazzo Reale, Turin, Italy. In his introduction to the Russian translation of The Ethics of Diet, by Harold Williams (English edition published 1883), Tolstoy narrated a visit to a slaughterhouse, Ginevra de' Benci. Ginevra de' Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de' Benci (born c. 1458 ). Exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. US; it is the only painting by Leonardo on public view in the Americas. [1] Self-portrait (Leonardo da Vinci) (English) 1 reference. imported from Wikimedia project. Wikimedia Commons. retrieved. 8 December 2019. So-called self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci in the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. 1 reference. imported from Wikimedia project. English Wikipedia. Identifiers. BabelNet ID. 15386330n. 1 reference. stated in. GfDg.

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