Word: chiaroscuro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes. And in a drawing measuring 11 in. by 16 in., Pontormo roughly sketched a single man on horseback that, though deliberately unfinished, bulges with expressive power. Tiepolo's luminous imagination shines in chiaroscuro in the violent Martyrdom of a Saint...