... important aspects of baroque art was consideration of the emotional experience of those who would view it. This was of great concern to Michelangelo Merisi who was known as an artist by the name of Caravaggio, the northern Italian town of his birth. He invented an ... innovative new technique, called tenebrism that was an exaggeration of chiaroscuro, a technique used by many artists of the time using slight variations of light and dark. Caravaggio was a master at using light to create an intense dramatic effect on the ... space between them and their clothing, but also connected by Chri...

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