Word: chiaroscuoro
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...time of these prints, the printing press had already been around for a long time. The Renaissance itself was a movement founded on looking at predecessors." Marcantonio was in good company. The exhibit showcases a wide variety of types of art copied including religious pictures, maps, texts and chiaroscuoro woodcuts. Pon, in her manner of hanging and through textual supplements, subtly illustrates that, "copying isn't necessarily a bad thing, it was integral to the [Renaissance] visual culture." Here copies exist as veritable pieces of art, not mere imitations...
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