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Canvas proved durable and portable for Northern European painters.
Sfumato, a painting technique utilized by Leonardo da Vinci, created a hazy look by rendering figures softly.
Chiaroscuro, which softens light and dark, was used by artists.
Venetian painters, especially Titian, used glazes to enrich oil paintings.
In portrait painting, three-quarter perspectives replaced quattrocento profiles.
Raphael's idealization becomes the High Renaissance norm.
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is a High Renaissance composition with the central figure, Jesus, alone and accentuated by the window behind.
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Patronage: Commissioned by the Sforza family of Milan for the refectory of a Dominican abbey.
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Function: One of the scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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Mannerists used perspective to create an appealing illusion or let the eye roam across a picture plane, as in Pontormo's Entombment.
Still life emerges in Mannerist painting.
Mannerist art's artifice—its peculiar intricacies and confusing spaces—has grown on historians.
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Function: Principal church of the Jesuit order.
Context: Jesuits are seen as the defenders of Counter-Reformation ideals.
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