The master of Chiaroscuro was Caravaggio, a painter living and painting during the 16th century.
In “The Inspiration of St. Matthew” by Caravaggio
Caravaggio began to use deep, dark backgrounds for many of his paintings and seemed to almost turn a spotlight on his figures. The high contrast in those paintings made for intensely powerful and dramatic works of art.
Because of Caravaggio, Chiaroscuro became very popular, and today the word is most often used to mean “high contrast” between dark and light, more than anything else.
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